I’d forgotten.
A record number of people are expected to try to eat only plant-based foods this month as growing concern about the climate crisis heightens interest in the Veganuary movement.
The global campaign is gathering momentum as more large employers promote it internally. This year, Harrods, Superdrug and Volkswagen UK are among the big names taking part in the Veganuary “workplace challenge” for the first time.
The corporate push involves making more vegan food available at work as well as running education and morale-boosting events to help participants keep going throughout the month.
Ooops! I read this while munching an a bacon sarnie. Ho hum.
There are some foods allegedly containing meat (probably recovered) that I wouldn’t touch either, but it might mean more of the good stuff for the rest of us!
I thought it was supposed to be Dry January? I can’t keep up…
Either way, I’m on the booze and about to eat a non-vegan lunch…
Ian J, many years ago (1980’s) ‘Bernard Matthews’ sold ‘turkey and pork sausages’.
It then comes out that they were made using ‘mechanically recovered meat’, meat jet washed off the bones, the slurry dried, then formed into sausages. Tasted absolutely superb but quickly taken off the market. As with turkey twizzlers…….
And they wonder how BSE got into the human food chain…..
Roast Beef couple of days before Christmas, roast lamb cooked by my fair daughter for Christmas dinner and a lovely full leg of pork Boxing Day when they traipsed round here, home made lasagne yesterday and good old bangers and mash tonight for dinner.
As my lady wife would put it, you’ve got more chance of pissing in the queen’s handbag than us going veggie (or doing anything else they demand), what others do is entirely up to them, knowing how sheep like the people once known as the British have recently become they’ll soon be gratefully munching through insect burgers or some other crap the lunatics in charge dream up.
So I couldn’t tempt you to deep fried tarantulas, then?
https://time.com/3830167/eating-bugs-insects-recipes/
Nope.
Having some potato salad, bockwurst and bratwurst today. Might do chips and a sirloin steak tomorrow.
Even by the low standards of green propaganda the notion that giving up meat will help combat global warming is exceptional drivel.
Given the volumes of methane which vegans and veggies will add to the atmosphere every day, any overall climate effect may be a big fat negative.
And when did you last see a vegan smile?
The thinking behind meat production being bad for the environment isn’t on very firm ground anyway. That burning fossil fuels adds CO2 to the atmosphere that was taken out of it over a very long period of time is demonstrably true. That it has more than a negligible effect on the climate is doubtful. Any emissions that come from large herbivores were recently taken from the atmosphere by the vegetation that said herbivores consume during their lives. This is all either common knowledge or is very easy to find out.
For myself, I don’t really like meat so I’m a sort of vegetarian. I eat dairy, eggs and fish. I have no intention of going vegan, for January or otherwise. I am on the wagon since the Xmas booze ran out, I have mild blood pressure issues and I don’t want to take pills for it so some abstinence is the price that I’m prepared to pay to get it under control. That and lots of swimming.
Egg and bacon sarnie for breakfast, just returned from the pub. These various “…anuaries” don’t affect me in the slightest
Being Vegan is akin to being mentally ill.
Best wishes for 2022 LR. May your very erudite blog continue to flourish !
The Graun are constantly pushing their vegan agenda. Well, as far as I’m concerned, the Graun can stuff their ‘Veganuary’ up their arsed.
Veganism is simply more hypocrisy from the left, and further evidence that they love animals and hate humans. Oh, we can’t eat honey, they say, because that ‘exploits’ the bees. Well, what about the workers in Asia assembling smart phones and tablets who are working under terrible conditions? Those employees are being exploited, aren’t they? And yet you won’t see the vegans giving up their phones and tablets. So vegans care more about the welfare of insects than that of humans.
Besides, we humans are neither vegetarians nor vegans. We have evolved to be omnivores.
Vaginauary is more descriptive.
Timothy Goodacre: thank you for coming up with the succinct description I’ve been pondering for a while. These inadequate diet nutters are becoming more shouty day by day and some food sellers have surmised that there’s a quick buck to be made pandering to them. This also means, of course, that they get on the nerves of the rest of us with their holier than thou advertising extolling the virtues of their inadequate foodstuffs by means of smiley mixed race families in ideal homes. I’m so glad that we record much of what TV we watch and can whizz through the dross to get to where we want to be.
*looks at huge joint of beef about to go into oven*
Oh well…
Here’s a good one from the Not Always Right website, a forum mainly for people in retail and service industries.
I am serving two ladies at lunch at a casual dining establishment.
Customer #1: “I’ll have the beef stew.”
Customer #2: “I don’t eat meat; what do you recommend?
Me: “Our most popular vegetarian dish is a mixture of grilled vegetables in an herbed tomato sauce, served on a European-style homemade noodle, topped with feta cheese.”
Customer #2: “Hmm, I don’t know about the noodles. Can I have it with rice noodles?”
Me: “Certainly!”
I get them served. When I check on them, she is quite unhappy.
Customer #2: “It’s not very tasty. I think I would rather have a bowl of that.”
She gestures at her companion’s dish.
Me: “But, ma’am, that is a beef stew… I thought you didn’t eat meat?”
Customer #2: “I don’t eat meat, but I eat beef.”
Sucks when your vegetables on rice noodles just don’t have the same flavour as a beefy stew served with buttery potatoes!
I am almost a vegetarian, I only eat vegetarians.
I’ve made a start: I only eat that which eats grass.
In other words “vegan by proxy” to quote someone else (sorry, can’t remember who!)?
I suggest that all Vegans (AKA Cranks) give up their supplements in January.
The Daily Mash is on it.
Dry January twat
Nothing’s more depressing than a whole year of unrelenting toil ahead, so why try to slog through January sober? And seeing as Dry January twats overdo it during Christmas as a last hurrah, there’s alcohol in their system until mid-February anyway. Expect them to fall off the wagon the first time a friend says ‘pint?’
Veganuary twat
Brace yourself for a month of veganuary twats meticulously checking the ingredients for gelatine and carmine, before deciding to live off Greggs’ vegan options because it’s easier. Come February 1st, these twats will be face-down in a bucket of chicken to dislodge the pastry clogging their arteries.
Gym twat
Exercise dickheads are annoying year-round, but January starters are the worst. They update social media after every rep, bombard you with post-workout selfies, and worst of all they make you feel inadequate by actually getting in shape. For two months.
OK I’m off the booze and seriously hitting the gym so I’m 2/3 twat according to this. But I have some health issues that need addressing, so that’s my excuse.