In a come dine with me style, would you make an effort to cook meat for your guests or not?!

No. I do however plan and prepare meals specifically for my guests to insure they will have a healthy and tasty meal and will enjoy the party.
f someone is allergic to peanuts then ALL food is prepared with no peanuts. If someone doesn't like corn then ALL don't eat corn. I prepare meals that ALL can eat together. No having to explain who can eat what.
A meal is to be enjoyed by all - including the host/hostess. If the host is vegan, then having a dead animal on the table would make it enjoyable.

I have cooked meals for up to 150 people. It is possible to please everyone - vegan, vegetarian, meat eaters, those with allergies...meals bring people together and that means pleasing everyone. I have served vegan meals to hard-fast meat eaters and they are pleasantly surprised.

No, I would not serve meat any sooner than I would make something with peanuts at a party with someone allergic to peanuts.

Definitely not. I think the whole point in that style is to experience new foods, so the meat eaters would probably appreciate trying something different.

Also, it would be a good way to show people that you can have fantastic food without having to eat meat. If you served them meat it would be almost like admitting that that was tastier than vegetarian food.

There's also the fact that I don't think I could physically bring myself to cook meat. It horrfies me!

I think it would be a lot better to cook something delicious and vegetarian, which would demonstrate how good vegetarian food can be.
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Nope. My reasons for not wanting to eat meat are ethical. By paying for it and preparing it for others, I am doing exactly the same damage as I would if I were paying for it and preparing it for myself.

However, if I am cooking for people who are used to meat, I'll usually pick a dish that is dairy and/or egg heavy, as that generally satisfies even meat-eaters. I also have had luck with ethnic dishes that aren't made with meat anyway. If a dish is just how it should be, nobody is going to feel that they are "missing" something.

My guests are important to me, but so are my values. I am not going to give them up just to make other people feel good.

I don't think it is "discriminatory" any more than I would think it discriminatory for a person who is against underage drinking to refuse to allow kids to drink alcohol in their home. Even if the kids' parents allow them to drink the booze at their own homes, it's not wrong for someone to say, "I don't support this behavior and I'm not going to enable it in my home."

The "if you expect them to cater to you, you should cater to them" is rather a moot point. I always mention that I am a vegetarian and if it is a problem, bring my own meal. I have yet to meet a person who is morally opposed to going vegetarian. Do you also think that a person who keeps Kosher and only serves Kosher meals should eat scallops and bacon to please the host?

I'm vegan. I wouldn't cook meat for someone, in that situation.
I have moral objections to eating meat.
I've never heard of a meat-eater having moral objections to eating vegetables, fruit, grains etc.

If they told me they didn't like a particular food, I would cater to them, like they have to me, by not including it in their meal. But, I would not pay for and cook food that I see as wrong. It would mean giving money to companies I don't want to give money to. And it would mean preparing and cooking food that I find disgusting, which, I would obviously rather not do, given the choice.

I'm fond of houmous, but, if my host felt like vomiting when she saw it, I wouldn't expect them to make any for me when I went to their house.

I would not cook meat for someone in my home. The reason I choose not to eat meat are for ethical and health reasons. Someone who eats meat can certainly go for one meal without it. If I invite someone to my home who is allergic to wheat I would prepare my meals accordingly. I would not expect them to prepare wheat dishes in their homes or have foods with wheat available to me simply b/c I can eat it. It would not hurt me to go without wheat at one meal.

If someone invites me to their home I am appreciate of the effort they make. I do not demand it, they are simply being good hosts by offering foods that I am able to eat. Also, believe me, not all host will accommodate. I went to an aunts house for Thanksgiving, I brought my own food, as almost everything on the table was prepared with meat(which I am ethically opposed to) or dairy(which I am allergic to). If the host is accommodating that is fine, if not than I will simply bring a vegetarian dish for myself and others to share.

You mention that it is about respect, but respect is by definition "to show regard or consideration for." Regard or consideration of what? A person that eats meat does not need it at every meal. Vegetarian dishes are tasty, filling, and nutritious, therefore there is no reason to cook a separate meal. Would you cook separate meat meals for your guest? What if one guest enjoyed fish, another beef, another chicken, and someone else preferred turkey? Do you call all the guest that come to your home to make sure you are making something they really want? Or would it be ludicrous to cook meals that accommodated every persons personal preferences? Or would you assume that the people that prefer chicken, beef, pork, turkey, etc will be fine eating fish for one meal?

As I said I am not expected them to eat anything. If they don't want to eat a vegetarian dish simply because it's "yucky" there is nothing that I can do for them. I once heard that fair is determined by the situation and the individual. It would not be fair to expect someone who is ethically opposed to meat to eat it at someone's home.

*Situations in which fair is determined by the situation and individual
1)Most people want to park as close to the store as anyone else does. Is it fair that some people get special parking spaces right at the door? Of course b/c they have a handicap and I and others do not.

2)I work in a building that is peanut free b/c of allergies. I am allergic to dairy and we are not dairy free, is that fair? Yes, b/c the peanut allergy can cause anaphylaxis and death when a very small amount is ingested, while dairy will not.

3)When I was in school children with learning disabilities got extra time on their exams while other child did not. Fair? Certainly b/c their disability made is so they comprehend material, and understood test material and answer questions at a slower pace than other children.

Obviously the examples can continue.

If someone who eats meat cannot go one meal without than they have a bigger issue with things than me not supplying it. I would also assume that most people I invited over my home would know I was vegetarian and only someone rude would expect to be served meat. If they really had an issue they could always politely decline the invite. If the person did not know I wouldn'y expect them to mention it, as it would be as socially awkward as a chicken dish lover complaining that they would rather have chicken parm than filleted fish.

no. I would make a delicious vegetarian option. I wouldnt feed guests rabbit food, but i would make something rich and yummy like a creamy soup and fresh bread as an appetizer, followed by some type of casserole with lots of yummy side dishes.

if they wanted it, yes, but people rarely whinge about it, ive neve rhad any complaints, and usualyl people really enjoy our food

No, I don't cook meat for others... but it's fairly simple to prepare dishes that are not readily seen as being meatless.

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NOT ONE BIT OF EFFORT

Yes I would have both meat dishes and non meat dishes. I do not discriminate like others.