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FRIENDS DAUGHTERS ARE VEGATARIANS
SO I ASKED WHAT WILL THEY HAVE CHRISTMAS
FOR DINNER,,,,,,,
HER.....TURKEY
ME BUT THEIR VEGGIS
HER ...OH YES VERY MUCH
ME ,,,BUT TURKEY
ISNT THAT MEAT
HER,,,,,ERRR DONT KNOW..IS IT

NOW AFTER HALF AN HOUR WITH HER
AND IS TURKEY MEAT OR NO MEAT

THINK MAYBE
IM GOING SIT DOWN AND IGNORE THE WORLD

Dizzy, the last time I .looked, yes Turkey was a meat. Perhaps it is only red meat that they do not eat.
Julia in Derbyshire

What an amazingly bright child.......lol
Good job you did not ask her if she was a vegan, she would have probably said "live long and prosper".....lol

What a lot of old gobble!! lol

FOGGY
SHES NOT A CHILD
SHES AN OLDIE


LIKE ME,,,LOL

You can get vegetarian 'meat' - including turkey!!
It's just flavoured meat substitute in a round 'joint'.
Used to buy the 'turkey' from Holland & Barrett for my daughter.

Quorn is a subsitute meat but i dont like it.Prefer just veg. Annie

I think i will just go for the "Joint" ta!

I know people who say they are vegatarian's, but they eat chicken and fish!!!

demi vegetarian

Sounds more like it

evening peeps. i am a vegetarian but will eat chicken and fish. why you ask, well because chicken and turkey are fowl and not animals and neither are fish ,mammals like us. so basically i wont eat any animal that is a mammal because they are the same as us ie.; they give birth to live young as opposed to laying eggs.

does anyone understand my way of thinking or am i all gobbledygook!!!!!!

florence

Florence , chickens and turkeys take care of their young just like mammals do, they keep them warm, they will protect them... they feel pain.

There may be some grounds for saying fish are a different kettle of fish...in as much as if they are fished and not farmed they do have a chance of 'escape' whereas farmed mammals or fowl do not ( unless they are wild and shot) .

It is a choice to make... people act according to their own conscience in this respect :)

rr yes it is a choice to make and i would never force my children to be like me. but i think its the definition of vegetarian thats the problem. what does it really mean in general rather than mean to the individual?

like vegan its quite clear that vegans do not eat any products that contain animal, even if it means not killing them, like eggs for instance

but what then does vegetarian mean? it is a bit confusing really dont you think?

Don't care we are having goose as usual!!!!!!

chris eat drink and be merry and as long as everyone gets something they like, then we shall all be happy on xmas day!

" A vegetarian does not eat meat, including red meat, game, poultry, fish, crustacea, and shellfish, and may also abstain from by-products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived rennet and gelatin.

Semi-vegetarian diets consist largely of vegetarian foods, but may include fish or poultry, or other meats on an infrequent basis. Those with diets containing fish or poultry may define "meat" only as mammalian flesh and may identify with vegetarianism.[A pescetarian diet, for example, includes "fish but no meat".

The common use association between such diets and vegetarianism has led vegetarian groups such as the Vegetarian Society to state diets containing these ingredients are not vegetarian, because fish and birds are animals."

That's the defintion really, but then there are also vegetarians like me who occasionally 'fall of the wagon' when the desire to eat something they enjoyed before becoming veggie gets to them :( very bad for my conscience when I do!

My nephew's partner is a vegetarian - for health reasons - she has Crohns disease and finds that omitting meat helps a lot.

thanks for that definition rr, so really i should say i am a semi-veggie, ive not heard that before. oh well ive learnt something new today and that can only be a good thing.

This so reminds me about my daughter when she was about 6 years old. She is/was a great animal lover and had informed me that she was now a vegatarian. We were in the local deli and she asked me for a chicken salad barm for lunch. "but your now vegi" I said. Her reply " no, it's ok because chickens just die".

To this day, she will only eat chicken/turkey apart from Mcdonads because apparently, they don't count. !!

Im a veggie my guideline is i dont eat anything with a face. Marilyn