11-25-2010, 07:39 PM
what a comprehensive post pablisimo - very interesting reading
i was born a vegetarian - eating flesh has always been alien to me, there was no choice to be made, and i stopped eating meat as soon as my parents basically gave up trying to persuade me to eat it, when i was 11, i guess around the time they figured that i could understand nutrition and take responsibility for my own nutritional choices
i used to share my knowledge of vegetarianism and the horrors of meat production in a proactive way but i don't any more, but i will share my thoughts with people if asked
i feel quite strongly now that people encounter reasons for becoming vegetarian at the time that is right for them - i think it's a very personal thing, and i suspect that stumbling upon information or experiences that trigger a move to a veggie diet is very similar to stumbling upon information or experiences of a spiritual nature
in my work now i support local food production, much of it organic / ethical, and i support farmers, butchers and other food producers in a variety of ways. i don't have a problem with this because i respect people who respect the animals and the land they work upon and who understand what 'food' is and where it comes from. the landscape i live in is beef and dairy - the land here can't support cereal or significant veg farming - too hilly and too damp. i wouldn't support or provide services to agri-business or factory farming production. i guess in many ways we are lucky in the uk to have a culture that is pro-organic and welfare aware and very resistant to factory farming - there are still pockets of it though sadly
for me encouraging people to make responsible choice as regards food is a gradual thing - food buying and food consumption becomes a habit. what i try to do is encourage people to make active choices about what they are buying rather than being hypnotised by supermarkets, and to engage with the food they're buying. it's astonishing how many people simply don't think about food
i was born a vegetarian - eating flesh has always been alien to me, there was no choice to be made, and i stopped eating meat as soon as my parents basically gave up trying to persuade me to eat it, when i was 11, i guess around the time they figured that i could understand nutrition and take responsibility for my own nutritional choices
i used to share my knowledge of vegetarianism and the horrors of meat production in a proactive way but i don't any more, but i will share my thoughts with people if asked
i feel quite strongly now that people encounter reasons for becoming vegetarian at the time that is right for them - i think it's a very personal thing, and i suspect that stumbling upon information or experiences that trigger a move to a veggie diet is very similar to stumbling upon information or experiences of a spiritual nature
in my work now i support local food production, much of it organic / ethical, and i support farmers, butchers and other food producers in a variety of ways. i don't have a problem with this because i respect people who respect the animals and the land they work upon and who understand what 'food' is and where it comes from. the landscape i live in is beef and dairy - the land here can't support cereal or significant veg farming - too hilly and too damp. i wouldn't support or provide services to agri-business or factory farming production. i guess in many ways we are lucky in the uk to have a culture that is pro-organic and welfare aware and very resistant to factory farming - there are still pockets of it though sadly
for me encouraging people to make responsible choice as regards food is a gradual thing - food buying and food consumption becomes a habit. what i try to do is encourage people to make active choices about what they are buying rather than being hypnotised by supermarkets, and to engage with the food they're buying. it's astonishing how many people simply don't think about food
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