Food and Health Room

[Piling]

Tested Volvic Juicy : not bad, not much calories. For people who like fruit juices but want to limit sugar.

[Anthea]

Tested Volvic Juicy : not bad, not much calories. For people who like fruit juices but want to limit sugar.

Looks good I will have to try some

[Londoner]

...humans have conscience

HA HA HA

Humans have conscience but it is controlled culturally. But when you can break this cultural barrier, you become free and compassionate.

[Anthea]

Humans have conscience but it is controlled culturally. But when you can break this cultural barrier, you become free and compassionate.

As long as I can remember I have known that it is wrong to kill - though as everyone knows I do eat fish and chickens

I have never knowingly killed so much as a spider (much as I hate them)

That is nothing to do with culture or even family values

[Piling]

Everybody eat everybody on earth. We eat animals or plants, and at the end, 6 feet under, we'll be eaten by animals and plants. So no one is innocent.

[Londoner]

Humans have conscience but it is controlled culturally. But when you can break this cultural barrier, you become free and compassionate.

As long as I can remember I have known that it is wrong to kill - though as everyone knows I do eat fish and chickens

I have never knowingly killed so much as a spider (much as I hate them)

That is nothing to do with culture or even family values

If you really hate killing, why are you eating fish and chicken?

[Anthea]

If you really hate killing, why are you eating fish and chicken?

I am not a vegetarian - I grew up in the countryside - I can kill to eat but just nothing overly intelligent

[Piling]

What about rabbits and ducks ? they are considered as poultry, but are intelligent (I had rabbit and duck as pets when I was a kid, they are really clever).

[Anthea]

What about rabbits and ducks ? they are considered as poultry, but are intelligent (I had rabbit and duck as pets when I was a kid, they are really clever).

I eat neither - I agree both rabbits and ducks are very intelligent - much more so than chickens

Also little fluffy bunnies are cute

[Piling]

Good utorial to make clarified butter. The woman speaks in French but it is easy to understand : you just need a microwave oven.

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Many vegans believe that Indians are veggies also but they use a lot of clarified butter. And it is good for cooking. I use it for roasting potatoes and other many recipes.

[Londoner]

so what is clarified butter?

To be vegan is not to eat meat because involves killing. But butter doesn't.

Anyway all sorts of butter are bad because they are highly oxidised and heating it like clarific it makes it oxidised more.

Unfortunately I am using a special cholesterol lowering butter. I know it is full of free radicals but it is the doctors advice and I can not risk blood pressure.

[Piling]

For a vegan, eating dairy, milk and butter is exploiting and killing animals. For having milk, you have to bred veals for butchery and exploit the cow. For a vegan EVEN honey is harming bees, so…

Clarified butter is made by heating the butter until the casein in it (from milk) is separating from the 'oil butter'. It support higher heat than ordinary butter in cookink, and can last longer. In Iran and in Middle-East it is used also : samna ? In India itis called ghee and is a basis of Indian cooking (and also the common offering to the gods).

A clarified butter in cooking gives a subtle taste of nuts. Yesterday I made Pommes de terre Anna, and it was delicious :

http://justhungry.com/2004/04/more_potato_lov.html

[Anthea]

http://justhungry.com/2004/04/more_potato_lov.html

Looks delicious but are there no calories in all that butter

[Piling]

It was full of calories so 100% sinful so 500% delicious

[Anthea]

It was full of calories so 100% sinful so 500% delicious