Sunday roast

[Apone]

I'll be doing a spit roast on Sunday if anyones interested

[stutheblue]

Just a warning though, there was a place in the region of the JP Tent that did a fantastic looking roast dinner (including Yorkshire if I remember rightly ) and my kids wanted that as their festival treat and were looking forward to it all week. They went on the Sunday afternoon and they had ran out. So it may be worth getting it before then and pretending it's Sunday. Couldn't tell you whether it was any good but it looked amazing.

[carrie2]

Just a warning though, there was a place in the region of the JP Tent that did a fantastic looking roast dinner (including Yorkshire if I remember rightly ) and my kids wanted that as their festival treat and were looking forward to it all week. They went on the Sunday afternoon and they had ran out. So it may be worth getting it before then and pretending it's Sunday. Couldn't tell you whether it was any good but it looked amazing.

[mr gumby]

I wonder if your bravado will last long if you have the courage to watch it

[fatyeti24]

Or http://earthlings.com/?page_id=32

That's the one that convinced me to go veggie, and eventually vegan. This will be my first time at Glasto as a vegan, and I'm pretty excited about the variety of food on offer.

[dan05delaney]

watched both videos, yeah they are grim but, I am still going to eat meat, as humans our bodies are designed to eat meat, lots of meat, the "health" benefits of vegetarianism is just bull crap, I know lots of people who have been vegetarian but were then encouraged to eat meat by dieticians because their bodies were having a negative side effect.

Now where's my bacon buttie gone

[pie_and_a_pint]

www.meat.org

I wonder if your bravado will last long if you have the courage to watch it

[StephenMinty]

watched both videos, yeah they are grim but, I am still going to eat meat, as humans our bodies are designed to eat meat, lots of meat, the "health" benefits of vegetarianism is just bull crap, I know lots of people who have been vegetarian but were then encouraged to eat meat by dieticians because their bodies were having a negative side effect.

[russycarps]

There's no better place to go veggie than at Glastonbury. Such a wide range of foods and so many like minded people to mingle and chat with.

Ultimately, people are selfish though I guess.

It's beyond my comprehension that anyone could watch those videos and continue to eat meat.

I just hope in a hundred years or so the human race becomes more enlightened, as I feel deep shame to be a part of it right now.

History will not judge us kindly.

[russycarps]

I mean, I can understand people burying their head in the sand and refusing to watch such footage, I get that.

But to actually watch the horror, then carry on eating meat regardless? I think that's actually psychopathic behaviour

Edited June 17, 2013 by russycarps

[dan05delaney]

I mean, I can understand people burying their head in the sand and refusing to watch such footage, I get that.

But to actually watch the horror, then carry on eating meat regardless? I think that's actually psychopathic behaviour

[russycarps]

I really think it is.

Part of the medical definition of psychopathic behaviour is having a diminished capacity for remorse.

Surely watching those videos and seeing the almost incomprehensible horror that the animals go through, yet still eating meat because you like the taste too much, surely that is a perfect example of having a diminished capacity for remorse?

It's not like you're starving to death and have no choice but to eat meat.

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

I'll be doing a spit roast on Sunday if anyones interested

[neil999]

I really think it is.

Part of the medical definition of psychopathic behaviour is having a diminished capacity for remorse.

Surely watching those videos and seeing the almost incomprehensible horror that the animals go through, yet still eating meat because you like the taste too much, surely that is a perfect example of having a diminished capacity for remorse?

It's not like you're starving to death and have no choice but to eat meat.

[The Naughty One]

www.meat.org

I wonder if your bravado will last long if you have the courage to watch it

[ErnestWorthing]

Peta, the group that don't want us to have house pets, nice. No-one is saying that industrial factory farming of meat isn't grim, it is, but that doesn't mean you can't/shouldn't eat meat.

[russycarps]

Peta, the group that don't want us to have house pets, nice. No-one is saying that industrial factory farming of meat isn't grim, it is, but that doesn't mean you can't/shouldn't eat meat.

[ghandi]

Ok, well all tartifletted, fajitaed, jerk chickened, curried and growlered out.

[addicted2noise]

Not quite a full roast but half a chicken and roast potatoes,good value imo.

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/info/food.php?fid=175

[snipe]

I cannot fathom how people can have full knowledge of the meat industry, yet carry on eating meat regardless, just because it tastes nice.

[Yorkshire Chomper]

I couldnt care less about Peta.

I cannot fathom how people can have full knowledge of the meat industry, yet carry on eating meat regardless, just because it tastes nice.

What sort of a selfish, unpleasant person must you be? It betrays a terrible character flaw.

[ghandi]

does anyone know where this Chicken place was in 2011?

[snipe]

The rotisserie was in and around where Chai Wallahs used to be I think. Close-ish to the bourbon tent.

[russycarps]

I really wanted to avoid this discussion but you keep posting. Everyone puts blinkers up at some point as to what their actions are contributing to as part of living in what we call modern society.

You've 6500 posts on this forum for example. You used computing equipment that you most likely own, the internet infrastructure composing of thousands of machines and the electricity to run all of those items. I'm sure you are aware that to make those items affordable enough that we can use them for something as frivolous as talking about a music festival (lets not even go there!) these devices and power are created from raw materials that are strip mined out of the Earth in the cheapest and most environmentally damaging ways possible.

The electronics are assembled by low paid humans in horrific conditions in places like Foxxconn that had to install suicide prevention nets to stop the people working there killing themselves. Some of the raw materials caused genocide in African countries due to power struggles to obtain the rights to mine them. Your power grid is subsisted by nuclear power which personally I support as the lesser of two evils when it is done modernly and responsibly but most likely it currently is not being and will result in nuclear contamination that will increase cancers for humans and animals for thousands of years (oil and coal are probably worse).

So yes the meat industry is horrific. From an environmental view there is no way of justifying it over fresh locally grown vegetables (vegetarian diets for a lot of vegetarians often do not actually consist of that at all but we'll be here all night going down that road).

The point is when pretty much existing in the modern world is having a massive and destructive effect on it it should be easier to see why people can just ignore one more injustice. You can see vegetarianism an as easy step to take to make a bit of a difference but I could as easily argue us canceling all forms of entertainment that use electricity and electronics should also be easy. The question is what each of us are personally willing to give up to make a pittance of a difference and for some people that doesn't include meat and you should be able to understand that when what you can't live without is also horrific in its impact.

[FTHC]

giving up meat is really really really easy though.

Giving up oil, gas, electricity and computers is almost impossible.

Why not make the really really simple changes at least?

How can you even compare the two things?

You like the taste of meat, so you are happy for the mass slaughter and torture of animals. That's it. That is the choice.

Taste of meat versus torture and slaughter in umimaginable conditions.