Floyd1
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Agreed.Well I repeat your opinion
Personally I avoid processed food full stop (other than bread). They are stripped off their nutrients during the processing and adding them back in at a later stage just isn't the same. Instead, I cook from scratch and but meat once or twice a week to make a casserole or similar. It can be time consuming but I enjoy it. never eat ready meals or takeaways other than the occasional Cornish pasty or fish and chips if I'm away from home.If I could tolerate dairy I would eat more cheese and less meat but unfortunately it upsets my stomach.
As regards vegans, I just don't get what is so wrong about eggs. Yes, battery chickens are cruel and should be banned. However, organic free-range eggs are available from all supermarkets and I have visited an organic farm and seen how these chickens live contented lives foraging and dust bathing outdoors during the day. Much better welfare and longer, safer lives than wild birds. Eggs are cheap, nutritious and incredibly versatile.
I have heard that some farms will euthanise day-old male chicks and I would like to see this banned, but then if you have seen the small mammals that get shredded by a combine harvester producing grains for human consumption then you realise whatever we eat will adversely impact animals in some manner.
Yes, processsed food is not good and apart from cheese I eat very little of it myself. I also haven't had a take-away for years.
One of the things I've always loved to make is casserole and yes it's not the same without meat (but after 40 years of eating meat, that is not surprising). I do find that diced tuna makes a good 'meaty' substitute though.
As for eggs, yes I think it's the battery ones that (quite rightly) upset vegans. In the 90s I briefly worked in chicken sheds and looking back it was quite horrible for them.
I couldn't/wouldn't do it now.
Weeks one to six.