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  1. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    Circles...........:)

    I did say right at the very beginning "truly" free range. I am not talking about keeping animals in slightly larger cages. I don't know why you have labelled me as...
  2. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    I think I have said my piece and am now in danger of going round in circles and repeating myself. To answer you though:

    Hm... do you agree that the only way to treat them with respect is to not...
  3. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    I live a vegan lifestyle and firmly believe that the use of all animals by humans is wrong. At the same time I do think that animals who are going to die for humans anyway, despite what I think about...
  4. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    Obviously, what I meant was because total abolition of the use of animals now is such an alien concept to the majority of people that it is easy for the multi-nationals to dismiss it. Factory farming...
  5. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    Okay---you say I have crappy views:). I won't be as rude to you, but I do believe the total abolitionist or nothing stance is idealist, abstract to the point of being existential with no hope of...
  6. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    My stance is abolitionism but I would hate to think my ideals would condemn millions of animals to lives of terrible suffering because I could not be pragmatic enough to accept that the move from...
  7. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    Actually I believe there is already general acceptance of animal exploitation.

    " This whole welfarist stuff runs counter to abolition"?-----------

    On the contrary---i believe that the more...
  8. Thread: Vegans and eggs

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    Sticky: Re: Why are organic eggs/meat unethical?

    Utopia to me would be a world where no animals were used, abused and slaughtered to be eaten.
    But we live in the real world and I don't expect to see Utopia in my lifetime. I want an end to the...
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    Re: Vegan chondroitin and glucosamine?

    Couldn't find anything on that site to say the Viridian Chondroitin and glucosamine (Marrer's 3rd link) is vegan. Emailed them and no reply so have just had a look for the product elsewhere and it...
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    Re: Vegan chondroitin and glucosamine?

    Well yes I did:) :pTrouble is everything is taking me longer than usual with one hand, so I don't have a lot of time to go through everything. Athough I could find lots of vegan glucosamine I...
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    Vegan chondroitin and glucosamine?

    I broke my wrist just before Christmas and am on the long haul to get mobility back in it. Does anyone know if it is possible to get vegan chondroitin and glucosamine, and if so where?
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    Re: Chestnut Roast receipe anyone?

    Not a roast exactly but delicious and very festive. It was on a Viva recipe sheet a few years ago.


    Chestnut and red wine pate en croute

    2 tablespoons olive oil
    2 onions 2 garlic cloves...
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    Re: Pickle recommendations

    Yes!!!
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    Very well put Manzana
  15. Thread: Kale chips

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    Re: Kale chips

    I wouldn't have dreamt of trying this recipe if it hadn't been for the rave reviews here---it really doesn't sound like it should work.

    Tried it and they are delicious---I am now addicted to...
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    Re: Pickle recommendations

    Pickled walnuts mmmmmm:)

    Lime pickle mmm

    Any sort of pickle really
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    Angiemom, your comments leave me almost speechless I am so angry.

    It is the dog who matters---not how easy a pet he will make for you.
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    I agree too. When I get an unusual pedigree in here as a rescue everyone goes---oh you won't have any trouble finding a home for him---and I groan inwardly. The kind of people who suddenly rush to my...
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    Marrers---I know exactly what you mean. These people are hoarders of animals rather than rescuers. I have seen horrible places with cats crammed into old caravans and dogs in accomodation that must...
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    Re: Powerful vegan/vegetarian statements

    "Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight". ~Albert Schweitzer
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    I meant free ads dogs who have already been bought once and are now for sale again or of course ads in vets surgeries etc. from people who have got dogs and don't want them anymore, not who have been...
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    I really can't believe there are any rescues out there who would put a dog to sleep rather than place it in a "loving home". There are reasons for everything, usually good ones, but I did concede in...
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    It depends on your definition of "good home". You say you know good homes who have given up on rescues and bought animals---well obviously I don't know the circumstances but i still defend the...
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    Re: Powerful vegan/vegetarian statements

    That's a wonderful statement. Stunned into silence because I can't think of anything as powerful.
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    Good for them!!! Surely a hamster deserves as much care in where it lands up as any other animal? !

    I really get pissed off with people complaining about rescues being too strict in their homing...
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    Poll: Re: Favorite vegan milk substitues

    I don't like soya milk, but quite like Rice Dream on cereal---and my parrot loves it so I keep getting it:) I bought the almond and hazlenut one by mistake last week and it is really delicious---can...
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    Re: Fuel made from animal fat/tallow

    At the moment the lambs from Scottish hill farms are going direct to rendering plants and will probably land up as bio fuel. This is a sheme that the Scottish Parliament has launched to help the hill...
  28. Re: Do some people not agree (physically) with a vegan diet?

    Since this man accosted you out of the bue, it's hard to decide what his motive might have been, but I have come across a certain type of omni who, when diet starts being discussed, claims that they...
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    Re: Simply organic vegan ready meals

    Thanks---will investigate the chiller cabinets now:)

    I cook everything from scratch like probably most people here but it would be really handy on occassion to have something quick to hand.
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    Re: Simply organic vegan ready meals

    I just zoom in and out of Tesco for Organic Pure so I have never noticed them----where are they---as in, what are they next to:D? It would never occur to me to look in chill cabinets .
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    Re: Teaching Children Animal Rights

    I agree---some parents get very touchy.

    I am not a teacher, but run a small animal sanctuary. The local Brownie pack used to visit once a year, when i would introduce them to the animals, let...
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    Re: Let's Get Fit and Healthy Together!

    Sorry to hear about your health problems. Have you tried acupuncture?It has a high success rate with nerve pain.
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    Poll: Re: What is your opinion about keeping pets? Poll planned...

    I am totally and absolutely against breeding animals of any description for human use, so as well as meat animals that includes all others who are bred to be accessories to sport, status symbols in...
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    Re: What is your cheese? What vegan food could you never give up?

    Note to self---be more accurate about exactly what you mean on this forum or they will all take the p***:o.

    Okay okay---no mushrooms in anything sweet, just savoury:p

    I only became aware...
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    Re: What is your cheese? What vegan food could you never give up?

    :D no.........but then I rarely cook cakes, puddings and bread. Don't think I fancy mushrooms in them though.
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    Re: What is your cheese? What vegan food could you never give up?

    I think mine would be mushrooms. Not that they are a particular favourite of mine really, but I seem to be incapable of cooking anything without them in it:D

    Except curries---I hate mushrooms in...
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