What are you...

[Entilzha]

priceless Rigil

[Cogito]

what are you...

doing: Facepalming, massively.

Germanyland is currently swept by a massive outbreak of ehec bacteria infection. 4 people already died, hundreds more fighting for their lives. The culprit: Vegetables that have been "fertilized" by dumping cow shit on them.
Even though I commiserate with the victims, there's only one thing that springs to mind - That's what you get for eating weeds. We didn't bloody make it to the top of the foodchain only to eat weeds. Eat the cow, istead of throwing its dumpings on some weed and eat it afterwards. Jeez

Some weed eating is necessary. Humans are omnivores, not carnivores. Fiber, trace minerals and vitamins all come from vegetable matter. It's usually customary to wash the fertilizer off of it first, though.

If you're even slightly squeamish then don't read this before eating. Or after, come to that. Needless to say, it supports Distracted's advice that anything coming out of the ground should be washed before eating it.

http://www.damninteresting.com/parasites-on-the-brain

[Kotik]

I'm sticking to my rule - if the majority of the stuff on my plate didn't belong to a farm animal or any other for´m of wildlife, it's not a proper meal. No weeds on the plate for daddie's son.

[Cogito]

For quite a long time, peasants in England ate nothing but vegetables because that was all they could afford, and landed gentry ate nothing but meat because vegetables were only fit for peasants. The peasants suffered from a lack of protein, and the gentry suffered from a lack of everything else. You need a balanced diet to stay healthy, and eating only meat or mainly meat isn't healthy.

[WarpGirl]

Well, not necessarily. You can be a vegetarian or a vegan and be extremely healthy. Ask EK I'm sure we can all agree her and her beautiful girls look quite healthy and they're advid vegitarians. I tired to be a pecatarian (only animal protien I ate was fish) I felt incredibly healthy. Only thing is when I couldn't cook nobody wanted to feed me an extra meal.

[Distracted]

For quite a long time, peasants in England ate nothing but vegetables because that was all they could afford, and landed gentry ate nothing but meat because vegetables were only fit for peasants. The peasants suffered from a lack of protein, and the gentry suffered from a lack of everything else. You need a balanced diet to stay healthy, and eating only meat or mainly meat isn't healthy.

Hence gout historically being the "disease of the rich". Their diet is one of the reasons why even the wealthiest people in the middle ages rarely lived longer than 40. 50 was considered advanced old age back then. Of course, people were considered adult at puberty...girls married at roughly 13 and boys usually 16 or so, so there was time to live a decent life.

WG's right about being vegetarian as long as you eat dairy and sufficient protein (beans plus rice every day will do it). Strict vegans (no dairy) will have a problem unless they pay careful attention. B vitamins are only present in significant amounts in animal products, and a diet lacking in B vitamins eventually causes anemia and nerve damage. Strict vegans can take B complex supplements or eat B-fortified foods like fortified soy products. Brewers yeast also contains B-12, but don't count on beer as your B-12 source.

[Cogito]

Brewers yeast also contains B-12, but don't count on beer as your B-12 source.

Oh no, you're saying these people would need to eat Marmite? Yuck!

[Distracted]

Interesting. I'd never heard of the stuff. I suppose if you could stomach enough of it it might help, but it sounds like it might be hard to eat more than just a smear of it on toast every day. Personally, I'd rather have a veggie burger.

[WarpGirl]

Well Could that be worse than Haggis?

[Distracted]

Hmmm. The concentrated, oversalted dregs of beer brewing vs sheep's stomach stuffed with oatmeal.

It's a tossup. Maybe if you spread one of them on the other it might make both of them taste better.

[WarpGirl]

[Grrr]

Nutritional yeast is grown on molasses. It tastes yummy. Brewer's yeast is left over from making beer. I've heard of it used to help keep fleas off cats and dogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_yeast

Grrr

[Transwarp]

If God didn't want us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

[justTripn]

Again, I found my self searching for the "like" button. Good one, Transwarp!

[WarpGirl]

I finally did it!!!! I've been hooked on a game called Jewel Quest for a while now and had a devil of a time making it through the "Adventurer" level. So I finally did it. I'm on "Excevator" now and OMG sooo much harder! But this time I'm not being picky about my score if it re-sets fine. No more going through the beginning again, the score just isn't worth it.