Foods that we eat...

MawB punctuation is a personal thing....my style is just that..my style. .Paddy Doyle and Dylan Thomas..to name but two..had their own style of punctuation
It appears to me that sometimes...you go on threads purely to snipe at posters.....so if that makes you happy then so be it.

If there was a like button........

I am not sure I can agree that punctuation any more than grammar or spelling is a personal thing
But to add
It appears to me that sometimes...you go on threads purely to snipe at posters.....so if that makes you happy then so be it

To compare oneself to Dylan Thomas or Paddy Doyle seems immodest to say the least but why stop there? James Joyce or e.e.cummings surely beckon.
As for that snippy comment - apart from being uncalled for (but, in mitigation, perhaps you are a newish member and do not “know” me or have not read my contributions over the last 9 years) it is rich coming from an OP who quite clearly set out to stir vegetarian/vegan/carnivore philosophies.

Gonegirl - ✔️Or ?or ?
But at any rate ?

It’s not very nice when you think too much about it and personally I eat very little meat. However as someone else said humans are carnivores and we need the protein meat provides for our health and for our children’s development. The other aspect is that the would be no lambs, piglets and maybe no chickens either if they weren’t bred for food. Farm animals would become largely extinct. Would that be preferable? I’m not sure...

I am having Quorn sausages for my lunch.

I have actually burnt them, but they will still be eaten.

Farview, quite simply it's because I am sufficiently cruel, ignorant, and insensitive enough to do so.

In my own defence I am trying to not eat mammal flesh. I still tell myself convenient lies about fish. I also use butter and cheese and I kid myself I am doing well to always substiture Oatly for liquid mammals' milk.

PS I ate a lamb chop because I got it as a gift and it was already dead. Have not bought mammal tissues for self or guests for more than a year.

Maw, I too am very interested in punctuation, and other aspects of written language. Farview's post was intelligible, elegant, and concise and her punctuation was more than adequate to her purpose of conveying her message.

I prescribe mixed forkfuls of cooked beetroot and Quorn sausage.

Sausages were so boring. Like eating mush. Will try Linda McCartney's next time.

I knew there was a reason I won’t have one.

Mammal flesh ?
It’s called meat
#neveruseonewordifyoucanusetwo

Maybe she eats meats of non-mamals? Such as birds? Or fish?

'Meat' is a euphemism. Don't you know old fashioned butchers were called 'fleshers'?

Or frogs?

Sorry Gonegirl Linda McCartney's are like all soya recipes. They are to be regarded as sort of like thickeners to bulk up the juicy tasty veg.

I do actually - it comes from the German root “Fleisch” and “meat” was a general word for food, as it “sweetmeats” or the Selkirk Grace
“Some hae meat but canna eat
Some hae nane that want it
But we hae meat, and we can eat
Sae let the Lord be thankit”

However point me towards the nearest purveyor or *Mammal Flesh” on your local High Street would you? It’s not only Rees-Mogg who enjoys arcane turns of phrase it seems.

I think we all make choices. I wear leather shoes. I know they are a meat industry by-product but am ok with it whilst so many people are still eating meat.
I wouldn't buy fur or 'exotic-skin' (for want of a better word) footwear though.
Mammals seem to me to be a starting point and I personally don't find it odd.

Maw, I like that word 'arcane'.

When I was a small girl I often was left with three old Borders ladies who always said the Selkirk grace before high tea.

PS I cannot remember having seen 'Fleshers' above a shop in Scotland for many years.

I don't think Alexa is going out shopping for something called "non-mammal flesh". I think she's simply explaining her choices to other Gransnetters in a way that is clear.

MawB:
"I knew there was a reason I won’t have one.hmm"

One needs staying power to persevere with soya

Thanks, NotSpaghetti, bujt I chose "mammal flesh" instead of 'meat' to make the stuff seem as revolting as it is.