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[Disco Child Ballads]

UN expert says we should have one meat-free day a week.

This doesn't strike me as a particularly excessive demand. Eating meat every single day is probably not good from a health point of view anyway. I've recently made a concious effort to eat less meat, precisely because of the sustainability issues that that article mentions, and will often have a purely vegetarian diet for several days at a time.

[Eggchaser]

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But seriously, I'm cutting back on the red meat for my health. But why are the best things so delicious?

[wingco]

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I last ate meat in January 1984. Wonder if that steak tastes as good as I remember it?

[Spearmint Rhino]

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I'm kind of amazed that one meat-free day is any kind of difficulty for anyone except maybe the family dog.

[Disco Child Ballads]

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I'd be curious to know if anyone here does, in fact, eat meat every single day of the week.

[Ginger Yellow]

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On average, yes. Certainly every work day. About the only time I don't eat meat is when I've run out of food and all I've got is rice or spaghetti.

[Anton Gramscescu]

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Look, I think you're all ignoring the major issue in this dietary debate, which is: how will this affect the poor?

(flees)

[JtS]

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I eat meat pretty much every day, what else could you put in a sandwich?

[Reed John]

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I don't forsee eating any meat today. I am planning to have some yogurt at lunch, however and maybe some later on around dinner time (I've got a lot of it in my fridge).

[Disco Child Ballads]

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JtS wrote:

I eat meat pretty much every day, what else could you put in a sandwich?

Tuna? That article says nothing about consumption of fish even though overfishing causes its own environmental problems.

[JtS]

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I was including fish under the whole meat type thing.

[EIM]

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I'd be curious to know if anyone here does, in fact, eat meat every single day of the week.

I probably eat meat every day that I eat. Occasionally I'll have a day without meals, where I'll get by on a tracker bar, or a bag of space invaders or something, but if it's a meal, it's meat.

[Deus Ex Machina]

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Yeah i'm the same, if you include fish then i'm truly fucked. though i'll monitor it.

[Gangster Octopus]

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JtS wrote:

I eat meat pretty much every day, what else could you put in a sandwich?

Cheese. I rarely eat meat at lunchtime. The evening's very different, mind.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Funnily enough, though I think of myself as a meat-eater, I don't think I do eat meat every day. Most days, though.

[Guest]

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It's weird really the idea that it could be an 'effort' but what do I know.

Things that people could put in sandwiches, if they must have sandwiches (sandwiches are a WEIRD concept aren't they? A bit gross if you ask me. If presented with one I have to take it to pieces usually)

1/ Houmous (I don't care how you spell it so don't bother to tell me)
2/ Salad things like sliced peppers and spinach and tomatoes
3/ free range organic eggs
4/ possibly organic cheese although I'm still not too sure about that really
5/ Marmite!
6/ Nut butters or tahini
7/ Tofu
8/ Avocado

[Ball Comrade]

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Lyra wrote:

It's weird really the idea that it could be an 'effort' but what do I know.

Things that people could put in sandwiches, if they must have sandwiches (sandwiches are a WEIRD concept aren't they? A bit gross if you ask me. If presented with one I have to take it to pieces usually)

1/ Houmous (I don't care how you spell it so don't bother to tell me)
2/ Salad things like sliced peppers and spinach and tomatoes
3/ free range organic eggs
4/ possibly organic cheese although I'm still not too sure about that really
5/ Marmite!
6/ Nut butters or tahini
7/ Tofu
8/ Avocado

That sounds nice, but no eggs in mine please.

[Guest]

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I didn't mean all at once. egg is a weird idea too, I know.

[anton pulisov]

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That steak looks awful.

[Ball Comrade]

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Lyra wrote:

I didn't mean all at once. egg is a weird idea too, I know.

I think I've probably had that sandwich, if you take out the egg and tofu.

[boris]

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Last time I ate meat was in 1978. Don't see what the problem is myself.

[Moonlight Shadow]

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A good idea. Mind you I'm a bit stumped for a non-meat filling for my butties and cheese is just as bad in term of carbon footprint. I really can't imagine filling it up only with green, however much I like salad in my sarnies...Vegetarian pates maybe?

[E10 Rifle]

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I don't think I ever cook meat more than twice a week, but where I fall down is on cured meat. If there's some parma ham or chorizo in the fridge I just tuck into it like others do with crisps and biscuits. Best snack in the world it is.

[JtS]

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Turns out yesterday I had no meat (if we're excusing the tuna and sweetcorn sandwich at lunchtime).

[Etienne]

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I think veggie sandwiches don't work that well as unless you have cheese or houmous then the likelihood is the flavours won't be strong enough to deal with all the bread. I recommend pitta instead as you can fill that will all sorts of gorgeous veggie stuff.