I must say that Sir Quej's post was ahem, shall we say a bit on the 'hysterical' side. a tad too much Pinot last night maybe? or perhaps his mother was frightened by a vegetarian when she was carrying him?
when I was heavily pregnant with my son (now 39 years old), my husband (yes, women who were pregnant in the olden days, actually had husbands lol) and I, decided to have a picnic. He was a soldier (I was a soldier's daughter) and we were in Northern Germany at the time. So we put picnic stuff in the car and set off. It was Springtime and it was our last outing before he did a tour of duty for 4 months, in Northern Ireland. We'd had our picnic in the countryside and were on our way home when I needed a wee. So hubby stops at a suitably remote area. I stepped towards some trees, looked around and saw nobody, so pulled down my knickers, and squatted. I'd just started to pee when...................from underneath me, a flipping great hare shot out and galloped, slightly damp, across the field. I screamed with shock, peed down my legs and into my shoes, ran back to the car and of course, blamed my husband all the way home for stopping where a hare lay still in the hope that I'd go away, instead, the poor beast got a '*************'. Now in the very very olden days, that alone would have had me convinced that my child was about to be born with a hare lip. Instead he was born very handsome but with a huge head of hair!...geddit? hair=hare....... geddit?
It was so long that the nurses had to give him a hair cut when he was one day old, took a couple of inches off and it was still long. He now has it almost waist length in a thick plait down his back, which comes from being reared by a hippy mother I suspect . Icidentally, all the mothers with baldy babies, told me he'd lose it all within a month. He never did and looked gorgeous instead of looking like a melon head bwaaaahahahahaShe probably hasn't considered the alternatives. The trouble with a lot of vegetarians and vegans that they don't see the bigger picture. I have debated the issue with plenty of them. I ask if they hate animals because if the world became veggie/vegan overnight there would be no livestock type animals and probably no pets, certainly no pet cats. Dogs could at a push, survive on a vegetarian diet but cats are obligate carnivores. Nobody would keep pet cows and sheep and pigs so they would all die out. Nature is about balance. We need some of everything for the world to survive. Remove several species and you end up with a world which I for one would not like to live in.A human only society is stuff of nightmares. It'd the same with animal rescue zealots. They repeat the mantra "Don't breed or buy while shelter dogs die" and smugly tell everyone that they'd never buy a puppy from a breeder as they don't believe in it. They will only 'rescue' an animal and think that all dogs and cats should be neutered. I then ask if they hate cats and dogs then? They always look surprised and say "no, of course not". I then point out that if everyone neutered all the cats and dogs in the country, within 15 years, there would be no pet cats and dogs. They just don't see the bigger picture.
