All right, the Easter celebrations are ended. And the lamb roast was most excellent, by the way.
Cutting the meat to once per week (and allowing fish whenever) was pretty easy, all things considered. So I think that I'll now try making things a bit stricter (I need to lose weight anyway, so why not?)
From now, I will eat meat once per week, fish once per week, and for the rest I'll try to be mostly semivegetarian. That means that
- Shellfish count as vegetables. They are tasty, and they are not as ecologically damaging as other kinds of edible animals, and they have very undeveloped brains, and they are tasty.
- Shrimps also count as vegetables. Relatively primitive, and tasty — sounds like fair game to me.
- In case of parties, special occasions and so on, I'll eat whatever is there and not worry.
We'll see how it goes...
EDIT:
I'm not sure if I should make shrimp count as a vegetable too or not. Thoughts?
EDIT 2:
Heh, why not. I hereby declare shrimps to be vegetables.
edited 12th Apr '12 11:14:00 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.Why not.
I'd have no problems with eating insects anyway — I mean, I am not going to raise them myself or to hunt and eat wild "prey", but if I happened to visit a place where they eat them commonly I'd try them.
According to a family friend who went to Africa as a missionary, roasted ants are delicious...
edited 12th Apr '12 11:06:02 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.I once tried sorting out which animals I won't eat, mainly based on intelligence.
I found it far easier to just discriminate based on whether or not they were carnivores or not, as carnivores tend to taste horrible. Plus if its something from the ocean then the carnivores tend to be filled to the brim with mercury too.
Actually my only real rule on what to eat is does it taste good, plants as a rule taste bad.
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