Thanks for the Invite/Eggs

[Guest guest]

Greetings Richard!

Regarding eggs...Only buy free range eggs at stores,

or purchase from a local farmer's market. Then you

can be reassured that those eggs weren't produced in

response to electric shock while confined to a tight

cage. Luckily I know a few people with chickens and

get my eggs from them. Yummy brown ones with bright

orange yolks...Very healthy.

 

Welcome!

Warmly,

Allison

 

--- SirLancelot9 <SirLancelot9 wrote:

> I too want to thank patchouli_troll for inviting me

> to the group. I have

> found it informative. I don't have much time to

> check my mail and like to

> skim through the daily digest every few days. I

> really enjoyed the

> interchange about a week ago in which there was a

> remarkable display of

> common sense about third world countries needing to

> eat meat when confronted

> with

> hunger. I think most people view vegetarians as a

> radical fringe element

> and it was nice to see a well balanced intelligent

> discussion. As for me,

> my name is Richard and I'm a single male, age 47 and

> live in KY. I grew up

> on a farm and have 14 brothers and sisters. Yes, we

> were Catholic and I'm

> the ninth one with 8 brothers and 6 sisters. I now

> live alone and don't

> cook much so the recipes aren't much interest to me

> but I do scan them to

> see if there might be something easy to fix that I

> would want to try.

>

> Since becoming a vegetarian about 5 years ago I have

> never discussed why I

> made the choice to quit eating meat. I tell anyone

> who asks that I thought

> it might help me to lose weight. I try not to

> discuss my views about being

> a vegetarian with my friends since I believe most

> people view this as a

> critique of their own meat-eating behavior

> especially when I tell them it

> was an ethical decision for me suggesting that they

> are somehow unethical.

> Although I consider myself a spiritual person, I

> have converted to atheism

> and being a vegetarian is intertwined with these

> beliefs. For me, becoming

> an atheist was a recognition that humans have no

> divine place in the

> universe or on earth. Humans have the same worth as

> any other animal, no

> more, no less..

>

> Additionally, I try not to bother my family and

> friends with special

> vegetarian diet requests when I eat at their homes

> and usually bring grilled

> veggies or salads with me. I see this group as a

> source of information and

> look forward to hearing more. I hope this group

> helps me to feel more

> accepted and provide a forum for intelligent

> discussion relevant to all

> vegetarians.

>

> I do have a couple of questions that perhaps someone

> from the group can

> address. I'm not a vegan. I don't eat chicken or

> fish but do eat dairy

> products and eggs. I lived around cows all my life.

> I don't see anything

> wrong with consuming dairy products since cows have

> a good life--at least

> all the dairy cows I've ever seen.. I've also lived

> around chickens and

> don't have a problem with eating eggs, however, I've

> heard, through word of

> mouth, that chickens are treated poorly and they

> certainly seem to live in a

> small confined area, but then so do other caged

> birds. I've also heard that

> chickens are given electric shocks in order to get

> them to lay eggs. Do you

> have any information on this? I'm not sure I could

> avoid eating eggs since

> they are used for so many different products but did

> want to have more

> information. Like I said, I don't cook much and

> rely on many prepared

> foods. Of course I always check to be sure there was

> no meat products used.

> I was also wondering about the use of leather. I

> have a leather chair that

> I bought many years ago that seems somewhat

> inappropriate for a vegetarian.

> It was an expensive chair and I guess I feel a

> little guilty. I don't buy

> anything leather or made from animal skins now but

> curious as to what others

> have done who have chosen to become vegetarian.

> This message turned out to

> be a lot longer than I anticipated and apologize for

> the length and any

> misspelling. Thanks again for inviting me to join.

>

> Richard

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

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