Very true and a good point. I’ve noticed that in France the cuts of meat are not the same as UK / US. And here they tend not to hang meat. This often means the only way to order a steak is very rare, or saignant (bloody).
Untrue. Even in the most isolated places I have always been able to find rice, vegetables, potatoes and beans.
I’m afraid it is true. Have you been to Kavseri ?
Things are improving in terms of availability of vegetarian and even vegan dishes or foods. Twenty years ago in France if you said you were vegetarian then you might be served a chicken dish or a ham dish. They were seen as not really proper meats so suitable for a vegetarian. But nowadays most restaurant menus will offer a vegetarian option. Sometimes. Maybe just a salad.
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Yes, I agree and I am not averse to vegetarian/vegan. As a Scotsman we regularly had porridge for breakfast. And I quite like to have a salad for lunch. But we enjoy variety with our food we keep it balanced. My dear wife makes sure of that.
You might be able to find them but can you afford them?
One of the reasons for the poor health of aborigines is that healthy food as mentioned is too expensive in remote areas and they have lost the skills to find bush tucker. They have a really poor diet of highly processed cheap food leading to absurdly high cases of diabetes, renal failure, coronary heart disease and rheumatic heart disease. Their life expectancy is approximately 8 years shorter than the non indigenous population
some people cannot be 100% vegetarian for health reasons. I tried a number of times to be veggie and vegan but with my food allergies/ intolerance I’m pretty limited and couldn’t find a balanced diet. I’ve tried to cut down on meat, pescatarian options, eat meat once a week. However, I seem to need meat otherwise it negatively affects my mood and cognition. I wanted to give up for ethical reasons, because I find the meat industry cruel and shocking. But now I just try to source meat that has been as ethically reared as possible. I won’t eat farmed fish etc. I avoid any cheaply reared chicken. I’ve given up trying to be veggie, my meat alternatives are so limited. Eating out is already a nightmare because I have to check for gluten contamination. Veggie options always seem to have either gluten or nuts or both. In supermarkets there is the Kirsty’s brand which has addressed this gap, but their varieties aren’t always widely available. Meat and fish are just very nutritious and like other animals, we are designed to eat them. We just weren’t designed to buy them mass produced in a cruel factory farm.
Last time I was in France, about twelve years ago I always had salads and chips in restaurants with a side of baguette, I always really enjoyed it and didn’t feel deprived!
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It’s very easy to have a balanced diet as. a vegetarian, more time consuming as a vegan.
Supermarkets have a huge range of vegetables, including frozen and tinned which are unprocessed or relatively unprocessed. Likewise fruit.
Eggs, cheese, plain yogurt. Rice, beans, marmite, oats. Easy to make vegan burgers with no additives.
I do avoid the processed alternatives which are expensive but have the vegan sausages and mince occasionally. The aim is to eat as little processed food as possible .
But what if you don’t have a supermarket? I mentioned Kayseri in Turkey where it was awful and nothing vegetarian, Then there zinc ship in Malaysia - nothing vegetarian there but that was out in the sticks. And Taiwan out in the boonies. They gave chicken feet - not at all nice…These were places where had to work at my job.
Lions are meat eaters, and they are the Kings of the jungle.
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And yet the biggest strongest animals, elephants, rhinos, oxen, gorillas are all vegetarian.
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You might as well include whales but can’t we stick to the human kind? You are a vegan and that’s fine. Most people are not and that’s too. So let’s be happy with with that…)
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Gorillas are primarily herbivores and eat mostly plants, but they may occasionally eat small animals and insects
Yes, all whales are carnivorous and eat meat.
Me … carnivore 2 or 3 days of the week. Veg, eggs, dairy or the the other days. Suits me. Lots of fruit too: breakfast, lunch & dinner, about ten portions a day.
And I’m having a glass of wine – which is vegetarian or is that vegan…?
It depends on the “fining process” which is used to clarify and stabilise the wine.
Some “fining agents” are derived from animal products and Isinglass is obtained from fish
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Oh well, I’m still having the wine…
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…and probably taste delicious which is perhaps why they are on the endangered list (except the oxen)
None of the afore mentioned are “Regal” just large!!