scootz
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 10:22 AM |
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Belated New Year Lifestyle Resolution...
Today is the day! No more talking the talk... I'm walking the walk! I've grown a pair and I'm taking a stand for something
I've procrastinated with for far too long!
Unless I know how it lived its life and how it met its end, then I ain't eating or wearing it!
Frankly, I'm ashamed it's taken me until now! 
It's Evolution Baby!
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pekwah1
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 10:37 AM |
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yeh, me too, hold on... what am i saying... i'm a MAN i eat MEAT and i don't care from where!!! 
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mookaloid
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 10:59 AM |
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I try to eat only British meat. On the whole I think we do it well here and buying mostly from my local butcher rather than supermarkets helps too.
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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MakeEverything
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 11:05 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
I try to eat only British meat. On the whole I think we do it well here and buying mostly from my local butcher rather than supermarkets helps too.
Better quality from the local butcher. Well worth the extra couple of quid.
Kindest Regards,
Richard.
...You can make it foolProof, but youll never make it Idiot Proof!...
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 11:13 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Unless I know how it lived its life and how it met its end,
... no matter how bad either of them were???
[Edited on 13/2/11 by Richard Quinn]
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eznfrank
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 11:14 AM |
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I imagine the eating rule will be much easier to stick to than the wearing rule?
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 11:19 AM |
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Unless you get one of those dresses as worn by Lady Gaga?
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Strontium Dog
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 11:33 AM |
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I don't eat very much meat but this Christmas I bought a half pig from a friend who rears her animals free range and cares for them very well.
Happy pigs. It might as well be from a different animal to the artificially colored, water injected, steroid fed pork you can buy in the supermarkets,
so very much better in every way. And I will not eat veal, or battery chickens or eggs or anything produced by inhumane techniques as I have a
conscience
Good on you, it can only be healthier to avoid chemically enhanced unhappy animals as well!
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ReMan
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 11:38 AM |
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Admirable, but difficult in praxctice, unless you're only going to rear and kill them yourself
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MikeR
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 12:20 PM |
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or know someone who does - get you know your local butcher and abattoir.
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Benzine
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 12:30 PM |
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Awesome, I've not had meat for about a year and a half (same with milk) Let's all gather round and listen to some vegan hip hop, yo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1_T5M2RdM
The mental gymnastics a landlord will employ to justify immoral actions is clinically fascinating. Just because something is legal doesn't make
it moral.
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austin man
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 03:10 PM |
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Roadkill it is then
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 03:28 PM |
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Well done Scootz...
Mind you, given where you live, that shouldn't be too hard!
I try my best too, but we are on a very tight budget, and whilst I would tend to agree that it's worth paying a little extra, it's not
when you don't have the little extra!
Fair play to you, hope you stick to it!
When I started reading your posts though, I have to confess that I thought you were going to say that you were going for a job/starting work 
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 03:40 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
When I started reading your posts though, I have to confess that I thought you were going to say that you were going for a job/starting work
Or stopping the impulse buys? Sounds like you are now putting more thought to what you put in your stomach than what you put in the garage.
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kipper
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 04:01 PM |
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Just taking a break from the workshop and have just eaten a shepards pie from the local Spa shop......
I can't say what the hell was in it but it tasted like a real shepherd............. yuk!
Denis.
Where did that go?
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scootz
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 05:05 PM |
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... you guys!
Luckily we live fairly rural and I know plenty who breed and rear beasties, so I probably will eat some animal at some point in the future.
In the meantime though it's lentils and lettuce for me!
The 'wearing' part will be slightly trickier, but I've managed to go a whole year now without buying anything labelled as being
'Made in China', so there's reasons to be hopeful. I guess I may as well continue to wear anything that I already have as
I've already contributed to the animals misery and I can't go back.
It's Evolution Baby!
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Peteff
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 05:14 PM |
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I've tried the alternative to leather footwear and I can say it is not good. I bought some waterproof boots and my feet were freezing every time
I wore them this winter no matter how good my (wool) socks were. I look on leather as a by product of the meat industry so as the cow is already dead
you should feel no guilt and stop laying your guilt trip on the rest of us
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 07:19 PM |
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I thought the alternative to leather was plastic...
So when you say "knowing how it's lived it's life" do you mean "This egg has come from a free range chicken"
stamped on the box or "This egg has come from Mabel or Agatha, the two chickens that I wave to on my way to work"?
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iscmatt
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 07:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Today is the day! No more talking the talk... I'm walking the walk! I've grown a pair and I'm taking a stand for something
I've procrastinated with for far too long!
Unless I know how it lived its life and how it met its end, then I ain't eating or wearing it!
Frankly, I'm ashamed it's taken me until now!
Buy from your butcher, problem solved!
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blakep82
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 08:02 PM |
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didn't know being gay was a valid new years resolution?
not for me! animals are too tasty
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jacko
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 08:07 PM |
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No meat you will be eating at MacDonald's then
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iank
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 08:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
didn't know being gay was a valid new years resolution?
not for me! animals are too tasty
More of the gay blokes I know eat meat
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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JoelP
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 08:55 PM |
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im all for veggies myself. Eating less meat is a step towards solving mankinds problems, in terms of how much more efficient it is to produce veg than
meat. And im not keen on cattle anyway really. The wife does love pork though 
Beware! Bourettes is binfectious.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 09:08 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
The wife does love pork though
Even vegetarians love bacon butties
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carpmart
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| posted on 13/2/11 at 09:14 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
The wife does love pork though
Even vegetarians love bacon butties
And I'm guessing SAUSAGES!
You only live once - make the most of it!
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