Go Vegan

One can be extreme about anything! including meat, and come a cropper. Take your time, would be vegan and investigate.

I have not eaten any meat (includes fish) for 48 years, always enjoyed excellent health, do not suffer from acidity (eat your greens), greasy dishes, or such high bills as go with flesh eating, and don't feel the least extreme, though I am near as damm it vegan now since discovering in my old age that dairy does me harm.

Within a short time of giving up everything (almost :) meat being prepared by others smelled repulsive.

But you need to know what you are doing somewhat. You can do yourself harm. Diversity of intake is a safeguard and women more than hemen ! need to watch out for a few things re babies. Apart from that I've formed the opinion that much of the propaganda I absorbed about food as a child is industry serving bs and thoughtless tradition. I've never lacked for protein, never suffered iron deficiency, or any other deficiency acording to blood tests, contrary to predictions, apart from money where I will admit to being generally anemic but that is another matter.

With more people now in other parts of the world wanting more meat and dairy, this is increasing deforestation even in NZ. Were we all vegetarian we would need less than half the farming land we use today. We would have very much less silting of waterways and erosion of land - it does not take much effort to see the damage animal farming does almost everywhere. Your meat comes with supplements too, with fertilisers, excessive use of anti-biotics plus cruel practises and silly ones, to get more product per animal, cheaper and at the flavour that suits the highest priced market.

It seemed such a cruel irony when I learned Americans were buying beef from Argentina and supplying aid to the poor in Argentina in the form of protein supplements! Most animal farming is a form of cash cropping and like any form of cash cropping (corn for ethanol, palms for bio-diesel) brings a whole lot of evils in its train. Oh heck! my farming friends will set the dogs on me :(

But who will care about all of this? We are ruled by desire, not understanding, and while that remains so we will always be messing up ourselves and our planet. Or can we do better?

Noel

I don't mind dairy especially home made cheese from greece or feta at least it's probably the only cheese i eat with nothing else maybe some olives or veggies etc. I enjoy eating health and organic i really think if more people did they would feel so much better and be healthier. Even with all the vitamins that i know im getting i still take a multi vitamin every day i buy discount vitamins online since its cheaper then in a store.

Eggs are just as bad as dairy ethically - like bobby (male) calves are killed because they don't produce milk, baby male chickens are killed because they do not produce eggs. And this goes for organic farming as well as intensive farming.