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Your "find the consonant" is such a wonderful turn of phrase and vastly more descriptive than my "grand scheme". :) Roger

Yes. 1000 consecutively correct. Which is why I posed the provocative question in the thread title. I have now retired from the long haul job and now occasionally keep my hand in with the daily one from New York Times. I developed my “grand scheme” once I learned that it was futile to guess...

There has been a lot said recently about rules not allowing vegan food products to use words such as milk and butter. We have just bought a vegetable spread marketed by Flora. The wrapping boldly pronounces it to be PLANT BUTTER with the U replaced with a drawing of a plant stem with two...

Anybody else been completely addicted to WORDLE? I have been living with this disease for a long time. What started as a gentle little mental exercise has developed into an absolute obsession. Your progress is recorded in two numbers; current streak and max streak. Once your current streak...

From The Times 12/5/22 James Cromwell superglued his hand to the counter of a Starbucks in Manhattan accusing the coffee company of discriminating against customers who prefer plant based milks. Cromwell, 82, told supporters from Peta: “Starbucks has admitted that cow’s milk is the company’s...

I can think of several cases of that happening. In particular I remember a contributor who said he was a young farmer who wanted to try to understand the arguments for veganism. I suspect he was genuine and was attempting to examine his conscience. Anyway, he received lots of responses and...

Today I heard our first cuckoo. He is supposed to herald springtime but the weather forecasters apparently do not agree with him. It is supposedly going to continue to be cold for the next two weeks. We had our fortnight of spring at the end of March/start of April. In the garden we have had to...

Is there anyone here who is religious for vegan reasons?

Hi, and a very warm welcome to the forum. Oh, the tribulations of sibling rivalry! It can be particularly stressful when one sibling is on the verge of adulthood and the other is still in the throes of adolescence with all its associated traumas. I would deal with your problem like this: Don’t...

Suggestions for the cheap vegan Hey, Hog. Are you trying to cast aspersions here? ;) "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap." Dolly Parton. Roger.

I find that using the word "flesh" instead of "meat" usually raises a few eyebrows. Roger.

In the UK the accepted wisdom, especially with omicron, is that the jabs greatly reduce the chances of having to spend time in a hospital and especially of death. Our fully vaccinated daughter recently had a rough time with covid but took solace in the thought of how much worse it could have...

In a magazine recently I saw a Gordon Ramsay recipe for “Teriyaki-glazed duck with sticky plums” together with a half page photo of the result. The headline for the recipe was “Duck to die for.” In ball point pen beside the headline someone had written “The duck did.” which just about says it...

Animals having good lives is a very common argument used by apologists. I live in a very rural area. I have never over pushed my veganism but of course everybody knows just about everything about everybody else. Without prompting, a farmer in my local pub once said to me that his animals were...

Your predicament with ducks is no different to the backyard chooks argument. Eating eggs is not vegan for two main reasons: Firstly, though you haven’t actually done any killing yourself, roughly as many male chicks have been killed as you have females. Secondly, though again you have not done...

This thought was brought to mind after we recently watched a recording of Simon and Garfunkel in their Central Park Concert of 1981: Nowadays veganism can be almost a fashion statement. Forty years ago most people considered that we vegans were somewhat foolish because of our supposed poor...

My wife and I have been vegans for 40+ years. Our reasons for becoming and remaining vegan, without the usual vegetarian intermediary stage, were purely ethical. However, we note that nutritionists tell us we have everything we need for continued healthy lives. We also note that we are...

07.45 pm BBC Radio 4: “Steelmanning”: “Timandra Harkness is joined by Prof Kay Peggs from Kingston University to debate the merits of veganism.” This is a repeat of something I missed first time around. If you are in foreign parts you might be able to catch it on BBC iplayer. High hopes I...

Very true. And that is the reason snake oil remedies have been (and perhaps are still) so ubiquitous. Let me relate a tale once told to me by a farmer in a Yorkshire pub: “When I was a child my dad gave me a Victorian penny and told me to always carry it with me. It would ward off any nearby...

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