No.
This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Reports of meat Plant COVID-19 cases at today’s Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response prompted a ‘Hazmat-Suit Protest’ outside Leinster House where protectively-sheathed members of PETA called on the public to go vegan.
Meat plant outbreaks focus of Covid-19 committee (RTÉ)
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well that protest has made up my mind. I’m definitely going vegan on the back of that
Was it Bat meat that started the pandemic?
Well, Meat markets / wet markets in Wuhan is what they believe. Caged bats passed it on to caged Pangolins, the cages were piled on top of each other. Then the sellers caught it from being close to the cages. Pangolin meat is considered a delicacy in China, and their armoured shells are considered an aphrodisiac of course! Like Rhino horn. Crazy superstitions really.
Am defiantly going to up my meat intake
Maybe it’s the fact covid is airborne And because of the noise shouting and screaming is ensuring anyone that has is is spreading it faster due to the screaming according to WHO which like singing etc spreads far further due to the spray aerosol type minute droplets according to their boffins
Also maybe that fact that no one is being tested on arriving to Ireland and the majority of workers in these plants are low paid migrant workers
Whoops I will get banned for my un pc post
Way to go, edgelord.
Almost all major diseases affecting humanity are zoonotic in origin; this alone makes a good argument for reducing the consumption of animal-based products – nevermind the animal welfare and environmental reasons.
Very true. Mass production of cheap meat has led us here. I hope that Beyond Meat will continue their great work.
Have you tried the new Denny range Junk? 8 sausages, 2 burgers or mince for around €2.50 each but that is probably an introductory offer. The burgers are first class and less than half the fat than meat.
Strangely, meat product producers are best placed to produce plant alternatives as they use the same herbs and spices as with their meat products- which are usually half soy in the first place.
Gregs sausage rolls in the UK are completely outstripping their sales of traditional rolls so there definitely is a demand.
@SOQ I dream of Irish sausages! But I live in Germany so I have to find the closest alternative to good Irish sausages. I don’t really dig Bratwurst. I have tried some decent veggie burgers here, and also a Beyond meat burger once. It was tasty, pretty close to a meat burger. I wonder can I import Denny sausages, I thought it might be illegal since the Foot in mouth thing years ago.
That reminds me, I have some SuperValu sausages in the freezer, yummm….
Oh ok- not sure if you could import. I am surprised about Germany mind as they love their sausages. The Denny burgers are better than Beyond Meat IMO.
https://www.denny.ie/food/meat-free-range/
@Junkface: They make about 1,500 kinds of sausage around Germany, some of them particular to a region. You must have found one or two better than Dennys.
We are talking plant based here Gabby but yes, I take you point. There must surely be some doing what Dennys are doing? It is a fast growing market after all.
And here is the point- by its very nature, pre-prepared plant food has a longer shelf life. Whether it is really healthier or not is another question as it is also highly processed.
That’s fine, but how do you prevent vegans?
excellent headline
How do the militant vegans think their vegetables are fertilized?
I don’t know the figures for Ireland, but in the U.S., animal manure is used to fertilise 5% of cropland (presumably crops that are used to feed livestock) – I’m sure we could manage without it.
There are alternatives, but they’re not that wide spread, also if we mass produced plant food like meat it would end up just as shitty as mass produced meat.
This protest is ridiculous. Close plants that employ people and deny people their choice of a natural food source. Im not saying the meat industry is natural, in fact it’s rather cruel, but it is what it is to deal with the population size. I just dont get pushy veganism. Does more harm than good.
“There are alternatives, but they’re not that wide spread… “
– well, they’re widespread enough fertilise the other 95% of cropland…
“… also if we mass produced plant food like meat it would end up just as [edit] poopy as mass produced meat. “
– we already mass-produce plant based foods on a massive scale, yet all of the widespread pandemics come from the meat plants…
“This protest is ridiculous. Close plants that employ people and deny people their choice of a natural food source. “
Bullfighting employs people and provides a low-cost supply of protein; should we open a few corridas?
Anyway, they are not proposing to ban people from eating meat – merely informing them of the epidemiological risks of its consumption
Acrylamide a chemical present in cigarettes is found in many beyond meat products
You know anything grown in a lab has a downside
The only foods to eat are naturally grown free from additives
Honestly why do vegans want to simulate meat
Vegetables are delicious and meat fish and dairy additive free and reared as nature intended is the way to go
Let’s face it you get what you pay for
“Acrylamide a chemical present in cigarettes is found in many beyond meat products”
– bovine growth hormone, BSE (mad-cow disease), avian flu, swine flu, nitrates and nitrites in processed meat (that cause bowel cancer) – these are all things found in meat. I think I’ll take my chances with a bit of Acrylamide, cheers.
The rest of your post is a load of nature-fetishisation BS with no basis in science – lard is 100% pure and natural, but it’s not especially good for you to eat. Poison mushrooms are 100% natural. The bat that that fellow ate in Wuhan this winter was 100% “additive free and reared as nature intended” – it still managed to kill tens of thousands.
The quality of Irish meat and dairy is second to none. A cheese toastie made with butter and Wexford Cheddar is a delicacy in itself. Actually the existence of Irish butter and cheese is one of the reasons I’ll never willingly go vegan.
You could be right, and yet we still had BSE, angel dust, foot-and-mouth… Its an activity inherently fraught with potential for zoonotic transmission.
Anyone remember Hazlet
yes
I remember making it in but hey lessons training to become a baler
Hated it also remember brawn
You can still buy it in my local Tesco in North London, my husband loves it!
I used to date a girl who worked at an abattoir.
She was a stunner…
(I’m here all week!
Try the fish!
I mean tofu!)
V. good :)
Ha ha!
We Are Devo!
Love this protest! Meat is responsible for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, pandemics, global warming, exploitation of slaughterhouse workers and animal suffering on an unimaginable scale. What are we even doing still eating animals?!
Because animals are tasty.
Great protest by PETA! No one needs meat to survive, and it’s high time these facilities should be shut down. Going vegan not only saves animal lives, but could also help prevent the next pandemic (let’s not forget this one started in a meat-market!!)
Soynant green they way to go
Nothing will change if we keep eating meat. Whether it is climate change, diseases, or pandemics- it is time to ditch meat from our diets. This protest shows how dangerous the meat industry is!
It’s been shown that men who eat meat have less a engorged erect penis and for less time than the same men who eat a veg diet for a week, just saying, a big steak does not one manly make
*of an
that’s interesting, but not surprising
tease
a pulsating, engorged one
oh My
I was thinking about becoming a SluttyVegan franchisee
now that you mention it
https://www.google.com/search?q=sluttyvegan&oq=sluttyvegan&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61l2j69i60.13179j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Interesting article from the Washington Post earlier this week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/07/07/le-diplomate-burger-beef-supply-chain-coronavirus/
How ever will we be able to tell who is vegan and who isn’t?
I already told ya above there