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Q Contest: Should we eat meat?

 

FoodDebateImage.JPGWriter, chef, culinary traveller (and vocal critic of vegetarianism) Anthony Bourdain squared off on this topic on Q this morning with author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer. (Have a listen to that below.) And now, it's your turn: 

Post your most persuasive argument for why we should or should not eat meat right here in one sentence or less. The perfect dinner-party zinger -- be serious or humourous, but be concise!
 
The winner will scoop up some excellent prizes, including copies of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and Anthony Bourdain's Medium Raw and more. And the glory of hearing your winning entry read on Q this Friday.
 
**FRIDAY UPDATE:  Contest is closed now.  Click through to see the winner!
 

 

 Honourable mentions go to...

Academentia for "Double meat, double cheese ... double chin."

JayKay for: "If we weren't suppose to eat cows, they'd be much harder to catch."

AnnieSue for "I don't often hear about outbreaks of Mad Carrot Disease or Legume Flu."

Jonathan Dough for: "BACON! There really is no better argument."

Vanessa for: "My teeth are too pointy to eat chick peas."

Ravonic123 for: "If we didn't eat meat, we never would have developed the ability to make the decision not to."

illeagle81 for: "If those who say eating meat is unhealthy would get off their high horse, they'd realize they had been sitting on a great source of protein."

MrBojangles for: "I ate my cat. Is that bad?"

worldward3 for: "Eating meat is primal and part of our id...vegetarianism is no different than sexual repression!"

Jason Baxter in Edmonton for: "Just a modest proposal... Bieber burgers."

The runner up is:

Ci Harver for: "If I don't eat meat, the vegetarians win."

And the winner of Q's Great Meat Debate is:

Will Vachon for his rhyming entry:

"Our wishes for meat dishes, though delicious, may well be vicious; let us be cunning like the foxes before we fill our ice boxes."