GTB
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Are you a vegetarian or would you like to be?If I couldn't buy or raise good quality meat then I would be very tempted to go vegetarian. I just can't bring myself to buy intensively reared meat anymore (not for over 5 years to be precise) and if there was no choice in the supermarket/shop fridge I go without.
My thoughts on vegetarianism is that it is a choice bourne from guilt over eating meat. Perhaps I am heading that way now? :?
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Local lass
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nope animals are on this planet to serve mankind either to eat them or work them :wink:
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pimpdriver
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Re: Are you a vegetarian or would you like to be? | GTB wrote: | | If I couldn't buy or raise good quality meat then I would be very tempted to go vegetarian. |
Where do you get good quality meat from round here?
Having watched the Hugh Fearnely Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver things over the past couple of weeks, I'm thinking of changing my ways.
Any recommendations for butchers or farm shops.
Not necessarily organic, just a bit more "friendly" for the animal.
Steve
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GTB
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Some of the larger supermarkets have a good range of free range meats with a passable provinance. Failing that, why not cut out supermarkets alltogether and use your local farm shops? Monument farm in Bremhill do a good range of free range meats which hasn't had to endure being driven across miles of roads to get to your table (or from abroad! :shock: ). There is another farm shop between Fishers Brook and Bremhill. These products are as local as you can get it really - plus you are helping the local economy rather than some multi-national shop!
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pimpdriver
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| GTB wrote: | | Some of the larger supermarkets have a good range of free range meats with a passable provinance. Failing that, why not cut out supermarkets alltogether and use your local farm shops? Monument farm in Bremhill do a good range of free range meats which hasn't had to endure being driven across miles of roads to get to your table (or from abroad! :shock: ). There is another farm shop between Fishers Brook and Bremhill. These products are as local as you can get it really - plus you are helping the local economy rather than some multi-national shop! |
I've been to the Monument one, where is the other? I drive that way most days, but haven't seen it....
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Local lass
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For veg collins is good i went there the first time ever just before christmas and was really impressed they also do meat,pates,home baked desert pies.
another very good one is on the seend road they have there own herd of aberdeen angus and deer and the meat is divine.
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kathy27
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I love my meat, there is no way i could be a veggie, if i had to kill it myself i could.
Im sorry but im going to sound like a heatless cow now! If i can buy a chicken for £5 that will feed all six of us, i will and do, they all get killed the same way, ive seen the stuff on telly but im sorry im not put off. Animals are here for humans to eat why else have we got k9 teeth. You all know how i feel about my animals :lol: but if it was a choice between me or my family and any of them, there is no contest.
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Bear
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Quite right Kathy I have heard people say that homosexuality is not natural well neither is vegeitarianism. Dont get me wrong I dont mind if people want to be veggies but as you said we have teeth made for eating meat and are carnivours by nature
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pimpdriver
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| Bear wrote: | | Quite right Kathy I have heard people say that homosexuality is not natural well neither is vegeitarianism. Dont get me wrong I dont mind if people want to be veggies but as you said we have teeth made for eating meat and are carnivours by nature |
Actually we are "omnivores" which means we have flat teeth at the back for grinding and chewing so we eat anything we can!
Where is Collins (remember i'm not local). I have been to the one just into Bromham on the left, very good veg but they don't do meat. Is Collins the next place on the right hand corner, just past the Audi garage???
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Top Dog
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Collins is on the juntion of the sandridge road.Just past the garage. 
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pimpdriver
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Will have a look in there one day
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Bear
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| pimpdriver wrote: | | Bear wrote: | | Quite right Kathy I have heard people say that homosexuality is not natural well neither is vegeitarianism. Dont get me wrong I dont mind if people want to be veggies but as you said we have teeth made for eating meat and are carnivours by nature |
Actually we are "omnivores" which means we have flat teeth at the back for grinding and chewing so we eat anything we can!
Where is Collins (remember i'm not local). I have been to the one just into Bromham on the left, very good veg but they don't do meat. Is Collins the next place on the right hand corner, just past the Audi garage??? |
I stand corrected you are quite right but you get my drift
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Kizzy
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I am nearly vegetarian - I hardly eat any meat products, maybe a bit of chicken, minced beef or tuna about once a week.
Solely and Purely because I am on diet (have been since May 06)
I could be fully vegetarian, don't miss meat much and there are so many good quality and tasty meat free products
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Adrian007
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My wife is vegetarian, I think mainly through her mums 'economy mince' phase when she was a kid - just easier to cut meat from her diet than eat it.
She sticks with it though - about 10 years ago she tried to eat some bacon and was sick straight away, so there seems no going back.
She loves that we all eat meat though - there'd be fewer cows and sheep of we didn't so she doesn't try to convert us. Not overtly anyway.
We don't eat much meat and it's quite often economy meat when she buys it. I only buy meat from the butcher or farm shop except during weak moments.
She does eat fish though - and I can say - down here, there are 'places' to buy fish. It's quite dear, but in comparison to what is available in Siansburys etc it's a completely different product, even cod is completely different.
Next time you are down here, contact me and I'll say where to call in for some of the 'alive this morning' fish. Supermarket fish is all frozen and at least 7 days old.
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Local lass
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where is down here?
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Adrian007
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Southampton/Bournemouth/portsmouth all have good fish places
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