Someone I spoke to
once put forward the opinion that "if you're not prepared to kill and prepare it yourself, you shouldn't eat it." I'd like to agree with him (there's no way I could slaughter and butcher my own pig - I can't even gut a fish without wanting to throw up), but my weak willpower means that I can't - animals just taste too damned nice! So, assuaging my guilt in the middle class way, I kid myself that organically reared animals don't mind being killed for my benefit.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)

I believe I have put forward this theory to you
in a debate about meat eating. I subscribe to it. This is why I only eat spiders, wasps and hookers.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:03, archived)

Quite probably,
although I was thinking of a skinny, bald fellow that I met at a wedding, last year.

I find hookers to be awfully tough, and like nothing better than tucking in to a nice juciy nerd - the fatter, the better.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:06, archived)

unless it was a fat, bald fellow
it weren't me. although considering the number of weddings I was at last year, it's more than likely ... perhaps I was having a "slim" day ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:08, archived)

You're not a geordie, are you?
Like all other geordies I've ever met, he was skinny and bald. I think they must all have an overactive metabolism, to cope with all the brown ale.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:11, archived)

Pffft!

( Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:06, archived)

I agree with this theory
However, social services have pointed out to me that the willingness to kill ones food need only be theoretical.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:08, archived)