Waste AM

My personal view on comments concerning: ” the vegan pod cast”:

I commend you on your interesting discussion concerning : vegan issues concerning eating meat, over a entirely vegetarian diet, (vegan)
it’s one of those situations whereby simply dabbling in a subject, one cannot appreciate the incredible variety of vegetable matter one can produce from the myriad of plants and nuts and other non-meat products, if one wants to permanently pursue this avenue of sustenance, and coming from a primary mixed dietary intake society, where you may find it rather difficult at first to establish a mainstream source for your dietary needs,

I find it a shame that you did not pursue some of the more palatable vegetable concoctions out there, which are both nutritionally satisfying, as well as aesthetically pleasing, but I commend you for giving it a try!

I found it rather curious that your main reasoning to pursue a more vegetarian diet was simply the health implications for your personal gratification in living a more healthier lifestyle, and not really touching on the main problem people find with eating meat products, which tend to be an ethical one,
Should we eat another animal species at all, or due to modern farming methods of meat production recently, is it ethically right to exploit these poor creatures in the barbaric conditions which these creatures have to endure throughout their short lifespan,

I personally would have been interested in your responses to these very issues which you seem to not address with any enthusiasm as it were,

but I must admit you did touch on the problem of methane and CO2 that these animal farming practices incur, and you also touched on the economics of producing meat, which is disproportionately resource intensive, compared to agricultural farming methods, in relationship to the production of vegetable matter for food,

I’m only too well aware that in hindsight it’s easy to criticise someones point of view ,that they didn’t talk about, but should be commended on the points and the issues that they did…. well done.

hey thanks for listening. I personally wasn’t doing it for health reasons. I think my issue is that I don’t readily confront the idea that I eat animals. The more I think about it the more wrong it feels.

On our podcasting in general – we’re not very balanced in what we discuss but hope in future podcasts to get guests. Hopefully guests can help us see the other side of issues. We have techniccal hurdles to overcome before that. but at least we are learning all the time!