Louise Carpenter's profile

More About Me

Reasons why I prefer to eat vegetarian or vegan:

I do not think it is necessary to eat meat or fish. How animals are treated is apalling. I do not agree with organically produced meat and fish also, who are we to end the lives of innocent animals. A cow can live for twenty years and are often slaughtered after one year, all of those wasted years. A dairy cow is slaughtered for meat after it is no longer producing a target amount of milk. Don't get me started on this!! I am happy and healthy being vegetarian and so are my four children.

I joined HappyCow Members Community because:

I would like to communicate worldwide with others who have the same values as me.

Here are some places I've been that I liked... and places that I would like to visit one day:

I have loved Hong Kong, Bankok, Bali, New York, Paris, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. I would love to visit Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Some of my favorite veg*n foods include:

Stir fries, risottos, pizza, anything with wild mushrooms. Lasagne, I adore curries and like madras, balti and jalfrezi.

Here are some books, movies, magazines, and my favorites that I would recommend to other HappyCow members:

America's Test Kitchen Baking Book. Mom's Big Book Of Baking. Crank's Vegetarian Bible. Leith's Vegetarian Bible. All Nigella books. Delia's Vegetarian Collection. All great!!