Diet meme
1. What is the most adventurous food you've ever tried?
Generally, I don't like being adventurous with food - seems like a good way to end up getting your stomach pumped. The weirdest thing was, when I was about 6, my mum asked what I wanted to eat on my birthday, and for some reason best known to some child psychologist, I said "rabbit." I had never had rabbit before, I didn't enjoy it at all, and I never ate it again. What on EARTH possessed me?
2. What is the most adventurous food you'd be willing to try?
Any non-poisonous fruit or vegetable - no weird mushrooms, please.
3. Would you have a problem eating dog meat and why or why not?
As a vegetarian of 50 + years, yes, there is no way I would eat dogs, or any other animal. While I know that every animal wants to live it's own life, and cows have best friends, and fish do NOT have bad memories, there seems to me to be a special sort of betrayal involved when a human eats a dog. We have kept and bred this species for millenia, and they are the other species which has played the most intimate part in human history; we created them to love us unconditionally. How DARE we turn on them and eat them?
4. For the most part, do you consider your diet to be balanced?
I am a junk food vegetarian - my diet is not well organised. But I'm still here, and in better condition than many people my age.
5. Which is more appealing: being a vegetarian for the rest of your life or being a strict carnivore for the rest of your life?
A strict carnivore's life would be nasty, brutish and short. I intend to be a vegetarian for the rest of my life.
Generally, I don't like being adventurous with food - seems like a good way to end up getting your stomach pumped. The weirdest thing was, when I was about 6, my mum asked what I wanted to eat on my birthday, and for some reason best known to some child psychologist, I said "rabbit." I had never had rabbit before, I didn't enjoy it at all, and I never ate it again. What on EARTH possessed me?
2. What is the most adventurous food you'd be willing to try?
Any non-poisonous fruit or vegetable - no weird mushrooms, please.
3. Would you have a problem eating dog meat and why or why not?
As a vegetarian of 50 + years, yes, there is no way I would eat dogs, or any other animal. While I know that every animal wants to live it's own life, and cows have best friends, and fish do NOT have bad memories, there seems to me to be a special sort of betrayal involved when a human eats a dog. We have kept and bred this species for millenia, and they are the other species which has played the most intimate part in human history; we created them to love us unconditionally. How DARE we turn on them and eat them?
4. For the most part, do you consider your diet to be balanced?
I am a junk food vegetarian - my diet is not well organised. But I'm still here, and in better condition than many people my age.
5. Which is more appealing: being a vegetarian for the rest of your life or being a strict carnivore for the rest of your life?
A strict carnivore's life would be nasty, brutish and short. I intend to be a vegetarian for the rest of my life.