Thursday 24 July 2008

jamie's fowl dinners - being a "mostly-vegetarian"


last night mcduck and i were glued to the tele mesmerised and horrified with the content on jamie's fowl dinners... yes, we had our veggo dindin (white radish / carrot / peas rice with sesame coated pan-fired nut loaf) b4 watching the show which would have rated a MA 15+ with its live killings, live gasing, blood and gore, severe animal cruelty etc...
it was jaw droppingly shocking... it would be most unfortunate to be reborn as a battery caged hen who would live for a year as an egg machine, standing from the day it was born until being sectioned and sold and the remains minced into mush to make hot dogs etc...
the heavy breasted supersized american birds could not even stand upright to support the weight... during most of the life they just sit in their own shit...
i do buy organic eggs - although they cost double the price... but buying organic birds would be another step up... they are normally triple the price... i guess because we have adapted a "mostly-vegetarian" diet of late (since we have resettled in oz), we should be able to justify the increase in cost for organic meat...
at the beginning of our "mostly-vegetarian" journey, our main concern was cost...then fat (saturated)... having meat not everyday should be the norm (like in the 50s or post war)... people now a days expect having meat protein everyday... this practice is unsustainable - water wasting, resource wasting, unhealthy, and of course costly!
there's plenty of protein in pulses and nuts you know and they are delish!

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