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i think a lot, if not most wines potentially contain fish and or nut traces cos they use them to fortify the wines or something.. must remember to read back of next wine bottle

Tee hee - that book is disturbing. I HOPE that the NZ slaughter industry is better. Although I don't eat red meat, so it doesn't really matter to me :-) I am trying to rally the troops for Mercs. Your presence may mean more of a turn out though!

Yup, they use fish products in beer too. Its called fining, and it is done to take the particles out and make the drink look crystal clear or sparkling. They also use egg white in some red wines for the same reason.

Yeah... I bought Fast Food Nation at the airport and read it on the plane/in the hotel when I was going to conference in the States... by the end of the week All American food was making me sick!

But I think the thing I found most horrific was the conditions people were working in and their lack of rights!

Tink of farm slaughtered meat... and when I was a kiddy in Masterton people had serial pet lambs... people's last year's pet was this years lamb chops. We ate our pet duck. I think farmers/shepherds/rural people have a VERY different attitude to animals than us city folk.

By the same token, I have met farmers who were horrified by the cruelty of people keeping terminally ill pets around... by and large they don't like to see animals in pain or distress, but slaughtering eating them is part of the process.

However, most of the things people these days call shepherds pie are made of dead bull!

Yeah, actually to be honest, my dream is to have enough land to raise my own chickens and rabbits and have a decent garden. I have no problem with killing humanely if it goes along with respect for the animals during its life. It's battery farming that drives me insane.

I mean, come on, what do you *do* with yourself (and your conscience) if you work for Tegal? Come home every night and kick the cat?

"What do you do at work, daddy?"
"Well, pretty much, I torture animals for money. Finish your dinner, munchkin. Want me to come to Parents Day and give a talk to your little friends?"
"Um... no..."

Does vodka involve unpleasant fish-related processes? (please say no) It'd be really nice to not have food sneak up on me like this. What's the point of boycotting the salmon if you're drinking fish in the Shiraz?

Someone needs to publish "The Guilt-Free Guide To Great Gnosh"

i think feeding animal bits to each other is pretty common - hence why the mad cow thing in britain was so widespread- cos of the practice of feeding ground up cows to other cows (mixed in w otherstuff o'course).

makes you wonder what useful nutrients we're missing out on by not eating OUR dead don't it (or maybe that's just me). also - anyone else a bit worried about baby food? ;)

Soylent Green! Soylent Green!

Or, as the Simpsons put it:
Brought to you by ILG, selling your body's chemicals after you die. And by Lil' Sweetheart cupcakes, a subsidiary of ILG.

Hmm may have to pas the fish info to my very strict vegetarian workmate - she has recently been farming yogurts from yoplait working friend to me as has discovered that the contain gelatine. Not sure how she'll cope with the thought of cutting out wine. Where did you read the info? On the label?

Thanks