We don't need to eat meat to survive so why do people? Some people say you need to for protein, others say you need to for iron. I don't eat meat and neither do my immediate family including my children and we are totally healthy. Most animals are stunned and killed by cutting the blood vessels in the neck causing the animal to die by extensive blood loss. They try everything in their power to get away from the killing machine and to get away from you. They have been stunned, so their muscles don't work, but their eyes do, and you can tell by them looking at you, they're scared to death." - Virgil Butler, former Tyson slaughterhouse ...  Read the complete review

Although I feel it is fundamentally wrong to eat meat, I sincerely try to not force my opinions on others. We have a choice and mine is not to eat meat. This is purely a matter for my own conscience. I have four grown up children and only one has (recently) refrained from eating meat. Another has a vegetarian girlfriend so, although he does eat meat he will also try vegetarian dishes. In fact he quite likes Quorn. I haven't ever put any pressure on any of my family to become either vegetarian or pescatarian, so I wouldn't do it you either. This review is more about my take on not eating meat; how it affects my everyday life and the differences I've found in actually ...  Read the complete review

I have been a vegetarian (but do eat fish) for about 3 years now. Me and my husband decided to detox for a month and not eat meat, and we found that we didn't miss it, and actually felt loads better so we never started eating it again. The longer I stay a vegetarian, the more I think it becomes to do with morals. It started purely on a health basis but I do understand some of the morals behind it. I would never try and force vegetarianism on anyone, but when we have people over for dinner, we do not cook them meat, they eat what we eat, and they are always shocked that it still tastes great and is actually better for them. The reason I ...  Read the complete review

I've been a vegetarian since I was 11. It's so incredibly easy that I do wonder to myself sometimes why other people don't opt for it, not that I would ever tell anybody what to eat. I think a lot of people believe that veggies have a bland and boring diet..... we don't! We can eat the same meals as meat eaters because we have a wide range of meat substitutes, we have the quorn range, the cauldron range and the Linda Mccartney range, not to mention the supermarkets own brand of vegetarians subs. I think there's a lot of snobbery that is attached to being a vegetarian. I've had people assume that I'm going to be judgemental towards them for being ...  Read the complete review

This might be considered by some to be a strange review to write as I'm not actually vegetarian. But I thought I'd put a meat-eater's slant on things. I actually spent a few years as a veggie back when I was a teenager (my nephew who has just turned 16 is going through the same stage and has been a veggie for just over a year). I don't want to call it a phase - it's not a phase, I find that a rather patronising way of describing what is a rather large decision to make, a big commitment. Not everyone stays vegetarian but it's every person's right to decide what's best for them at the time. I had no particular 'awakening' (some people describe the ...  Read the complete review