How much meat do you eat?

happyinflorida

I'm trying to eat as much organic now as I can possibly afford or get.

Our politicians only eat organic in their subsidised canteens and restaurants in the Houses of Parliament - they also have subsidised bars there, so we're paying for their food and alcohol on top of their enormous salaries, that's wrong in my opinion.

Nearly all UK meat produced is being fed GM crop/animal feed - except for organic meat - so again our politicians are making us have stuff they're not prepared to have - wrong on every level in my opinion. :mad:

barrenelly

The poll asked us only about what we eat. But for people who shun meat for moral reasons, as several of my friends do, isn't it more about what we buy? I never buy meat or poultry, though I do occasionally buy fish, but I will eat anything I'm given, and enjoy it (usually ...)

If somebody is kind enough to invite me to dinner, or has given me food containing meat, how does it benefit animals to reject that food? If that meat is thrown away, the animal has died for nothing, and surely, once the creature is dead, wasting that meat is more dishonourable than eating it?

I think there may also be a moral distinction between eating the meat of a wild creature such as a fish (or, as Rotor's example, a deer) that has lived a free and natural life, compared with an industrially farmed animal that has spent its short and miserable life shut in a tiny cage where it may not even have been able to turn round, let alone express any of its natural behaviour and instincts.

It's buying the meat in the first place that perpetuates the industrial production and the custom of eating the meat of certain species and not others. People in this country, presumably for what Rotor deems "sentimental and anthropomorphic" reasons, don't eat dogs and cats and have recently, in the main, rejected horsemeat. Other countries relish the meat of these animals. Pigs are at least as intelligent, sensitive and social as dogs, but we eat pigs by the million.

We all make our own choices in all our purchases for our own reasons, and I don't think it is helpful to scorn people on either side of the fence upon which I have perched myself here!

MrsE_2

I eat meat - I'm always meaning to eat more meat free meals, but I follow a fairly low carb diet, so I eat meat as the mainstay of my meals.
I eat loads of veggies too.

Missli

I'm not a huge meat eater, 500g mince will last us all for approx 4 dinners as like to bulk out with veg. Chicken can last up to a week if counting the soup made with the carcass.

If I haven't had meat (or little) for a while, my body does crave it, so will get the few days where I may have a full English brunch, or steak to compensate. Oddly enough I then go off it for a while, and will eat cheese, cooked, or raw, and fish, but sometime just veg, and fruit.

NatFeerick

We are genetically programmed to eat meat - since caveman times! The healthiest diet, backed by science, is one that is based on meat and fish and is low in simple carbs & high in protein.
But hell, lets all live on wheat and drain the NHS with complaints of IBS & skin problems.....

minicooper272

I tend to eat meat in 1-2 meals a day, but I don't eat huge quantities. I often eat ham or salami in a sandwich for lunch, and will use inexpensive meats heavily extended out with vegetables for dinner. One chicken breast is typically 3 meals, a 400g pack of mince will be 8-10 meals.

I very rarely eat a whole steak or chicken breast, as that's when it becomes expensive.

Being honest, I have very little imagination when it comes to cooking, and if I went vegetarian, it would be a diet of pasta and passata, or oven chips!

ineed

I am a bit fussy with food in general and I normally only eat meat once a day at dinner as I couldn't face it for breakfast (never that hungry in the mornings and need a very light meal) and don't fancy it later. I voted 5 - 6 times a week as some days I skip meat in favour of veg dishes.

Gordon_the_Moron

NatFeerick wrote: »

We are genetically programmed to eat meat - since caveman times! The healthiest diet, backed by science, is one that is based on meat and fish and is low in simple carbs & high in protein.
But hell, lets all live on wheat and drain the NHS with complaints of IBS & skin problems.....

I have less than a month of being a 20 something left, I've never been in hospital in my life (apart from when I was born and to visit people) and I've been a vegetarian since I was 18 (in the 6 years before that I probably ate less meat than the average person does in 3 months, I'd gone right off it but had it very very occasionally.

Even if it did affect your skin badly and give you an irritable bowel, which it doesn't, I'd sooner have bad skin and an irritable bowel than a heart attack!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/02/04/vegetarians-have-lower-heart-disease-risk-study-finds/

Angelicdevil

Gordon_the_Moron wrote: »

Even if it did affect your skin badly and give you an irritable bowel, which it doesn't, I'd sooner have bad skin and an irritable bowel than a heart attack!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/02/04/vegetarians-have-lower-heart-disease-risk-study-finds/

I know (and am friends with and work with) so many people who simply cannot eat wheat. It irritates their bowels so badly. Google "coeliacs"......

You know what? I've never met anyone who "cannot" eat meat.

Cissi

Angelicdevil wrote: »

I know (and am friends with and work with) so many people who simply cannot eat wheat. It irritates their bowels so badly. Google "coeliacs"......

You know what? I've never met anyone who "cannot" eat meat.

Actually I have - several people who have been vegetarians for a long time and now get very sick if they try any. As I understand it, you lose some enzymes needed to digest meat if you don't eat any for a long time. You can get them back again by starting to eat meat very slowly, over time, but it makes you sick at first. So the poster further back who said that they're raising their children 100% vegetarian but that they can make up their own minds later on may not be totally right as their bodies will reject meat at first, making it an uncomfortable experience.

I answered 5-6 times a week but like others have said, that doesn't mean a steak almost every day! We might have bacon in a pasta sauce (with veg), ham on a pizza, chicken in a curry (with veg and nuts) etc - with the occasional steak, chop, chicken breast, Sunday roast etc. We usually eat fish 1-2 times a week too. Lunch is often a soup or salad, but sometimes there may be ham or chicken in a sandwich. We definitely don't eat an unhealthy amount of red meat and we buy good quality meat when we do buy it - that's something I won't scrimp on, even though this is MSE!