I was born an omnivore, and I’m happy to keep my dental and digestive systems happy eating what they were designed to work with. If nature intended me to be a herbivore, I should have been born a sheep. 😆 I have speculated with some close friends (in some amusement I might add) whether evolution will notice Homo sapiens (and I vote we REALLY should change that classification, is it’s original Latin meaning is long lost. We are far from ‘Wise Man’! I’d leave it at the more descriptive ‘Homo Erectus’)… drive to devolve to a sheep by their growing eating habits, social habits and constant bleating about all and sundry. Homo erectus devolving into ovis aries would be the ultimate irony and I would laugh all the way to my grave and far, far beyond!! 😈 Still… that would take considerable time, Nature’s not in any hurry, and the Human race will probably be long extinct (which is far more likely all things considered). 🙂 Maybe whatever next race that evolves will get a slap about the head from Mother Nature and she’ll say “Now look! I made you omnivores and that what you will stay or else! None of this pretending to be sheep garbage, or so help me I’ll scrap you forever and just stick to trees!!” 😆

However, as I stated (and meant) before, if there is a legitimate health or medical reason, and not simply some silly squeamishness (in which case if kept to the individual’s own self, fine. Otherwise, I’d recommend a visit to a mental health professional, not that I think very highly of most of them), then go for it. 🙂

It’s too inconvenient to take my mug with me, so I generally don’t drink anything in a paper or plastic cup unless I’m totally desperate and need something to hold me over until a store opens that will sell me real coffee. That’s the reason I don’t have one of those “travel cups” – they are plastic. It may be my imagination, but I believe it affects the coffee in a less than beneficial way. It’s not a “snob” thing, I drank military and police coffee, which is as bad as it gets… no college dining hall coffee is the worst, but I don’t have to do it, so I don’t.

It’s probably a manx thing, because there used to be a manx that belonged to a woman who owned a local business, he would wander around. As you say, not a long hair, just a fluffier, fuller coat.

it used to be horrible, but a few years ago they changed to premium roast or whatever they called it — huge improvement. this is accentuated by the fact that it’s still cheaper than everybody else’s too.

4 of my 11 ex-ferals are fluffy, on the order of vinnie’s fluffiness, and a noticeable % of the neighborhood ferals are that fluffy too. no truly long-haired ones though, like you find among maine coons or norwegian forest cats or siberian cats.

Actually, OWL, Vinnie is one of the few ferals who is slightly fluffy, although there are no longer any truly fluffy ferals.

I need the animal iron 9which is proven to be different from vegetable iron) and assorted amino acids and protein available only from animal flesh. Artificial supplements don’t work on me, which has been proven by hospital stays for various deficiencies over the years whilst taking many such supplicants, a fact ignored by many of your brethren. 🙂

There is also the fact that if we did not farm animals as food, they would breed to plague proportions and we’d have to cull them for no benefit anyway (as is happening with the Kangaroos here now that the do-gooders managed to stop them being hunted. Thousands are now dieing from starvation, as are many other species because the ‘roos have eaten the land bare and poisoned the waters). Now these same do-gooder hypocrites are decrying the fact that the poor ‘roos are starving to death and slowly dying from various diseases, without of course sparing a single thought that it just might be their fault. It never is, of course.

Personally… I find it all rather academic anyway. 🙂 If the ‘Monsantos’, ‘DuPonts’ and ‘Coca Colas’ of this World have their way… We’ll all be a historical footnote within a few generations for any poor race that manages to succeed us, if any. 🙂

Most ignoramuses on this backward planet don’t realities, for example, that we are so different individually, that many of the wondrous medications developed or discovered from Aspirin up only work on average for 30%-50% of the population. And that’s a documented fact I discovered whilst working at HP and spending several months designing and setting up a huge network for GlaxoSmithKline. If people living in Bayswater where the HQ is here had any idea of the kinds of things being developed and the kinds of chemicals and bio-compounds they were playing around with in their supposedly 100% secure underground labs, they wouldn’t live within a hundred miles of the place. 🙂

Ignorance, as always, is bliss. 🙂

As I say, if it works for you and you feel good about whatever you choose to do, then good for you. And don’t let anyone try to change you. I reserve the right to say *STFU* if anyone tries to convince me to change, unless they can incontrovertibly prove their assertion, in which case, I’ll listen, research and decide for myself. 🙂

I enjoy good fresh veggies and fruit, and grow many of my own here. 🙂 But I also *need* red meat and fish. *shrug* tough sh*t for anyone who doesn’t like that. 🙂 I have a fave juice I make that lasts almost a week with a combination of apple, orange, celery, spinach, carrot and ginger. I call it ‘green and gold juice’ (because when done right you get a layer of green and a kinda golden/orange layer). Tastes great and helps with my T2 diabetes (I’m told it’s mostly because of the celery and ginger root, and you have to include the celery seeds when you make the juice). Green beans and broccoli are also good for diabetes. 🙂 If I don’t have red meat regularly, I develop what’s known as ‘heme iron deficiency’ and start bleeding easily. It’s quite common amongst vegan’s actually and some get smart and put meat back in their diet, unless they can find supplements that work for them, and good luck to them if so. 🙂 I do have to take some supplements that do work for me, such as 4g per day of fish or krill oil cap’s because I need a high dose of DHA (and the omega-3 doesn’t hurt), even though I have fish 3 or 4 times a week (usually some fillet for dinner, I had steamed Cod last night, and tuna or salmon for lunch).

I wouldn’t say I *love* McD’s coffee H… But I do like the McCafe’s fresh coffee, as I think I’ve said before. It’s not too bad. 😉 🙂 There’s a local bakery/Cafe here that I go to every Sat I can and have lunch. The barista there knows exactly how I like it and they make a wonderful orange/almond biscotti for me to go with it, and I usually have a wonderful chunky 100% beef and mushroom pie (or occasionally the baker will make his famous beef and guiness pie! They don’t make it often because it’s actually complicated and has about 14 ingredients. But it tastes divine)! And that, I can say, I love! It’s probably as close to heaven as I am likely to get! 😆

That’s how you get spoiled, Lady Min, buying from a butcher. My Mother spent the bulk of her working life as the bookkeeper and head cashier for an independent local grocery store that was noted for it’s meat. The meat was all local and arrived as carcasses. One of the owner’s was a butcher and everything that was in his meat case was cut in the store. He ground his own hamburger, and there was no charge for a special grind or cut. [I like it courser than normal for most things.]

That’s why I want to see the piece of meat, so I know what it is going to take to make it edible.

A lot of the current beef is so lean, that it is like caribou, and it will be tough and stringy when cooked. It is better suited for footware than food.

Vinnie doesn’t travel more that 50 feet from the feeding station. He is apparently concerned that he might miss a meal.

I eat very little meat, but every few weeks I just have to have a burger. I have a local independent market I use for my meat purchases. They tell me they grind their own beef and only buy from one place. Tastes better too.

The kitty needs to stop by my yard… I’m pretty good with a grill. 🙂
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