My Meat Thoughts -- Steroid Style

[txteach]

Somehow Bryan you being a vegan is fitting. I, on the other hand, love Beef, chicken, pork, buffalo, Antelope, Moose, Fish, and deer.

[saucerful]

Last summer at the "Last Days of Summer" fiesta in my city, I saw some deep-fried Oreos for sale and I decided that I wanted to get serious about all of the ideas in my head regarding food.

This doesn't have to be a political thread, and I certainly didn't intend for it to be one. First of all, I was just having fun with the title MEET/MEAT, and then I just decided to try to have a friendly conversation about food choices and what people think/do.

Hey John, vegan or flex is definitely fitting for me. I agree. About 15 years ago, I was a hardcore vegan for two years straight. Then one day my body yelled at me to eat a bagel with cream cheese and lox, and then I was eating everything again until last summer. I think this time around I am having more fun with the choice and I'm not such an "angry young man."

[samurainoir]

Raw foods is the way to go and keeps you healthy and hydrated.

Have you made your own breads? Do you have a dehydrator?

Have you made Hummus from zucchini?

Luckily there are a great many markets in Toronto that to the breads and crackers from Raw.

We've been doing our own sprouts.

We're saving up to get a really good dehydrator.

Tonight we made a mint Gazpatcho for supper and marinated some portabello mushrooms.

I'll never be able to go 100% raw vegan, but it certainly balances out that entire cow's worth of smoked meat I ate a couple of weeks ago at a Montreal stag.

[RussG]

I went anti meat for about 2 years after high school, due to some classes I had, and seeing what some of my favorite foods such as hot dogs were made of, it just killed my appetite, I soon started dropping pounds, got sickly thin ... then the Dr. pretty much told me that I need more protein in my diet etc. So soon I would eat a steak and then a cheese burger ... and realized ... so a hot dog might have some iffy stuff in them .. they're cooked and taste sooo good ... now I eat most anything ... now I have to loose pounds and not gain them LMAO.

[Sideshow Spock]

Mmmm, mutton!

[Bill]

I always thought that the only reason a man would be a vegetarian was because of a woman.
Or Obama.
In Quebec, of course.

[txteach]

Bryan no offense meant my friend. I grew up around hunters ( I personally hate hunting) so I like meat. I can also gut almost anything and do it during hunting season for friends. I also am a great game cook if I say so my self. When in culinary school we learned to cook a lot of untraditional meats.

[Zemo]

I think I would eat steak raised on people.

[Hector]

After years of beef, chicken and pork consumption (my family never did kosher), I just can't eat it anymore unless it comes from one of a handful of farms that "do it right" or if I'm invited to somebody's home and it would be rude to refuse. So, that meant that in this past year, I have eaten animal flesh only twice.

I am mainly vegan with a casual amount of dairy and fish consumption, and I am a pleasant dinner guest, so my diet is officially "flexitarian."

I have read too many books and watched too many documentaries to turn back now. But there is no way I will give up my sushi. That won't happen.

Oh, and I really hope to have some "MEET Thoughts -- nayrbgo style" in June 2011.

Dude...you are dead to me...

[Hector]

lol, no food talking! Hector will have a fit.