If you were offered a dish...?!
Answers: If you were offered a dish cooked by a friend that had (certified organic) meat or meat products in it, would it be acceptable to try the dish once to provide an honest critique?
if it were grass-fed and free range from a local farm i would tuck right in! those little buddies were happy from beginning to end! i would say "thank you for providing me this nourishment" to the soul of the animal.
Unless you're vegitarian or vegan, why not? I mean, it is your friend and you trust him/her right? If you don't like the looks of it, just get a tiny piece and simply say that you're on a diet. She/He will think you're telling the truth. Remember, only lie THIS time! Lol.
Well, I don't eat animals, so I would have to politely decline. However, this friend would already know that I don't eat meat and would make the dish for someone else who can provide an honest critique :)
NO the digestive system would find it hard to digest meat after a long time vegan or vegetarian. further how could a vegan/vegetarian tastebuds give a honest critique - thats a oxymoron - contradiction of terms
unless you were veggie, of course not :)
Acceptable to who?
If i willingly ate meat I wouldn't be a vegetarian.
“Organic” simply means drug- and chemical-free. It has absolutely nothing to do with the humane treatment of animals. The living conditions are similar to those on factory farms, mutilations are still routinely done without painkillers, and the animals on organic farms are often sent to the same slaughterhouses that kill animals from factory farms.
I wouldn't eat animal flesh just to give a friend some feedback. (None of my friends would ask me to do this anyway, as they know that I'm vegetarian.) I think the only situation where I'd willingly eat meat is if I were starving and all the plants in the world had died off.
Vegetarianism is defined as the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh. So, I don't think it's acceptable to call yourself a vegetarian while making certain exceptions for meat-eating. You could call yourself an omnivore who eats a mostly vegetarian diet, and make exceptions like the one you described.
I don't eat animals and I don't care if it's organic.
No, I don't eat meat. Period. And no friend of mine would expect me to compromise my principles to critique their cooking.
Most of the people I know are vegetarian or vegan, and those who aren't would respect me enough not to ask me to taste-test something with meat in it.
Are you trying to play gotcha with us?
No. I go without if meat's the only option.
No I am vegetarian. I do not eat meat, regardless of the reason
Are you directing this question at vegetarians?
Vegetarians do not eat meat at any place or any occasion.
A person that can't politely decline non-vegetarian food is not any kind of vegetarian.
As a vegetarian I would not eat or try the meat...but if you are not a vegetarian then go right ahead!
If you are however a vegetarian, and you try the meat then you are no longer able to call yourself a vegetarian.
why not?
Unless the the meat-devil will get you.