Well, I gess concerning vegetarian hobbits we can only agree to disagree, cause there is no way we can find an answer to that. All we know for sure is that not all hobbits are vegetarian, because there is mention of hobbits eating bacon.
I can defenitely see hobbits gathering berries, tomatoes, plums and other fruits like that, as they had vineyards they must have been able to grow grapes as well. So maybe the climate of the shire is quite like the climate of french, though with an entirely different culture. I'm not sure jet.
The beef thing is defenitely somehting that needs research, because cows don't produce just beef, there's milk and cheese for example
I wish I had 'The Hobbit' with me right now, I recall Bilbo serving the drawfs boiled eggs, indicating the presence of chiken, and apple pie. But pie doesn't necesarily contain milk, so that's no proof of the presence of cows in the shire. I'll look it up when I get home to my lotr collection. :P
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