Definitely all of those characteristics. Bats too … Chinese bats in wet/live markets where covid19 runs riot 
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I’m not sure invertebrates are smelly. The can be slippery and slimy but only slimy before they are cleaned. Oysters are simply delicious, better raw than cooked. Mussels are also a superb dish, with chips of course.
Perhaps, given the economics of meat production and the environmental pressures created by rearing cows, pigs, sheep - perhaps we need to look to other protein sources? Such as invertebrates.
PS the local restaurant I mentioned above had calves heart on the menu this week. I wasn’t in a brave mood so clearly calves heart falls into the category of inedible for me.
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Food should never be about Money Strath. And there are lots of things other than food that these animals produce…Cows = Leather - Sheep = Wool - Pigs = Arteries and veins implanted in your body when the crap you eat blocks up your own…Plus many more things that I hadn’t thought of.
Plus…Cows and sheep keep pasture from turning into wasteland. Can you put a price on that…Not to mention Dog food. When you consider that practically every house has at least one dog (most around here have several) and you want to get rid of something that actually provides us with food and not just chases postmen and runners.
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Sprouts, broccoli & parsnip.
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You make some fair points. But not all are supported in what’s going on for farmers and the land used for grazing. For UK hill farmers it is barely worth shearing sheep as it often costs more to shear each sheep than the farmer can get for the wool. And there is a massive argument about the damage to moorlands that sheep do - effectively creating endless mono-culture of heather where once forests thrived. So greatly reducing wild birds, wild animals, variety of plants. It is not as simple as sheep farming is good for creating lovely pastures and certainly not the case that taking the sheep away would create a “wasteland”.
Pet food is an interesting issue. Food for pets is made from the bits not used for human consumption. Luckily we’re not great eaters of lungs, intestines, mechanically removed flesh.
I’m happy to eat most meat. I’m just suggesting that meat production is more costly than vegetable / cereal production - in terms of money and in terms of environmental costs. But you are right to point out the useful by products of our meat production.
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I agree with the Sprouts. I can abide Broccoli in small doses and I love roasted Parsnip.
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Same with me (being arount 95% vegan). The only “real” vegan chocolate which I consider really yummy and great is from the company “Lindt”, which unfortunately is not known to be cheap or reasonably priced.
Still, it is worth the money IMHO.
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Here is one which I actually love to eat (had some this morning) but others absolutely hate, it could be described as slimy too and is banned in most hotels in Asia.
DURIAN, the king of fruits
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Eat it with a clothes peg on your nose do you?
Omg it smells like sewage …that’s putting it politely
Frogs legs and snails I would not even consider putting in my mouth to eat, but then again I am not French
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Is that the one that pen & inks like the rear end of a hot camel?
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It does have a smell that lingers and tends to repeat on you BUT the taste is divine and personally I don’t mind the smell at all. I remember driving along thinking I must be driving through a durian plantation when in fact it was the van in front of me with a load of durian fruit
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OMG Bruce how can you not mind the smell of sewage and stinking feet.
That’s reason hotel ban umm 
Repeats on you aghhh ! 
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I think the description of it as smelling of sewage is completely wrong, it does have a strong, distinctive smell but it is not of sewage or smelly feet. I don’t find the smell unpleasant at all and, as I say, the taste is divine.
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Oh Durian, is that not the “stinky” fruit? I tried it once in Thailand and it was ok.
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There’s nothing wrong with sprouts as long as they aren’t boiled to mush… believe it or not they can be rather yummy!
They just seem to get a bad press and have done for many a year!
Sproutism is unacceptable in 2023… I’m very offended and hurt.
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We should start a ‘Sprout Lovers Club’ Chilli, I think they are probably the best ever vegetable…
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I think so too Foxy, I think so too.
A club for the discerning few.
I don’t anticipate receiving many applications for membership with this lot!
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Sprouts are definitely not something I would eat, ever.
I don’t think there will be many members clamouring to join 
Most definitely “few”
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I would like to be a member.We steam our veggies and sprouts and 19 minutes produces a super succulent treat.Not too soft but not too hard.
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