that's wonderful, Kettercat! :-)

 

 

hmmm StupidIntel, if you wanna eat veggie burgers, don't go to some stupid cheap place like McD or Burger King... :rolleyes:

Try Chili's burgers...any style. but with black-bean-paddy. I love those sandwiches. Yeah, you've to shell out more than $5, but you also get to sit down and eat, and have those huge fries to go along too! :smug:

 

 

 

All i know is, i see meat-eaters turning to vegetarianism, and hardly ever the other way round. People must see at least some good in being veggie!

US Vegetarians Hesitiate to Capitalize on Mad Cow Case

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Mad-Cow-Vegetarians.html

 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, January 1, 2004: Droves of Britons gave up

meat during England's mad cow outbreak in the 1980s, but since the

discovery of an infected cow in Washington state American vegetarians

mostly have trod carefully, trying not to take advantage of a situation

that could cost lives and cripple a $40 billion industry. "I caution

vegetarians from using mad cow disease as a recruiting tool," said

Joseph Connelly, editor of San Francisco-based VegNews magazine. "Mad

cow disease is not a good thing no matter how you look at it." Though

vegetarian headcounts are imprecise, Britain's meat-free population

surged following its bout with mad cow, which killed 143 people,

according to Tina Fox, spokeswoman for the Vegetarian Society of the

United Kingdom. She estimates up to 10 percent of the population is

vegetarian, and up to 40 percent has reduced its meat consumption.

 

Vegetarian businesses and advocacy groups mostly say the discovery of

mad cow in the United States still is too isolated to prompt people to

change their diets. "We're not really at that stage," said Charles

Stahler, co-director of the Baltimore-based Vegetarian Resource Group.

"They haven't shown that anyone is sick, so it's really very different

here." For now, the discovery of one sick cow mostly will steel the

minds of existing vegetarians.

 

"It's giving them another good reason to stay firm in their beliefs,"

said Carla Davis, managing editor of Glen Allen, Va.-based Vegetarian

Times magazine, which has a monthly circulation of 300,000.

Vegetarianism has been on an upswing in the United States. Vegetarian

Resource Group estimates there are roughly 5.7 million adult

vegetarians, up from about 2 million a decade ago.

 

Natural foods grocers, including giants Whole Foods Market and Wild

Oats, said sales data aren't in yet, but so far shopping habits don't

appear to have changed. "I've seen nobody coming in panicking, saying

'I have to become a vegetarian,"' said John Hutchins, manager of the

Concord Food Co-Op in Concord, N.H. "But if this keeps going I wouldn't

doubt if more people start experimenting."

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals group already has activists

around the country distributing information about vegetarianism outside

restaurants and launched a new ad campaign: "You would have to be MAD

to eat meat." Bruce Friedrich, the group's spokesman, said demand for

PETA's free vegetarian starter kits -- a pamphlet of recipes and advice

for changing one's diet -- has been so strong the group called in

employees from vacation to handle the requests -- 10,000, up from the

usual 4,000. "The USDA and the meat industry are playing Russian

roulette with the health of the American people, and the national

consciousness is being awakened" he said.

*thumbs up* :smug:

There's something that I'd LIKE to eat' date=' unfortunantly I can't... :rolleyes:[/quote']

 

:lol: :lol: I think I know what you were talkin about! :wink3:

i still dun't get it *in style of Ricky Ricardo* :rolleyes:

There's something that I'd LIKE to eat' date=' unfortunantly I can't... :rolleyes:[/quote']

 

:lol: :lol: I think I know what you were talkin about! :wink3:

 

Yes, I'm sure ya do Jess! :P :wink3:

 

:stunned: :lol:

WHAT? what is it? :/ the Twix candy bar? :idea2:

Ahahahaahhaha!!! I can eat a Twix anytime me damn well pleases! ;) :P :angry:

Let me quote *Ahem*

 

"OMGWTFBBQ"

What the hell?

oh my god what the fuck ba-b-que...

What the fuck are you and him talking about?

i don't know! :lol: i just told u what Rain meant by all those acronyms, in case you didn't know what they all meant. otherwise, i don't know what rain's talking about. and i dunno what that joker cat is supposed to mean! :P

I still have no clue what you mean.

Another Vegetarian here. Have been 16 years :)

 

God I'm getting old :( ;)

and i dunno what that joker cat is supposed to mean! :P

 

Think of the nickname for Cat that starts with a P and then you will know.

sheesh! dirty dirty fellow! thinking dirty dirty thoughts! and at such a young age! :stunned:

:P

hahahahaha.