Do you eat meat?

Do you eat meat?

  • Yes (i.e. I eat the flesh of animals, including sea food)

    Votes: 86 84.3%

  • No

    Votes: 16 15.7%
  • Total voters
    102
tschandler71 said:
Chickens you eat for meat aren't raised in little cages. I guarantee I am the only one on Zoochat who has ever been inside a poultry house or involved in production agriculture.

"Free range" is a marketing term for inner city people who have never seen a chicken.
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Your guarantee is a little wrong, as I am a full time farmer.

You are right though about meat chickens not being kept in cages. All caged chooks are for eggs, as it makes egg collection much easier. Free range layers are much more labour intensive.

Meat chooks are a special breed and are so big and heavy that they only walk short distances at a time. They are kept in large barns with many feeders and drinkers. They spend most of there time sitting while they eat or drink and only stand for short periods. I know people who have bought meat chooks to breed with their chooks to increase their meat yield. They behave exactly the same in free range situations and even though they have acres to explore, they just move between the feed and water. They dont live long either and the oldest I know of is 2.
 
Monty said:
Your guarantee is a little wrong, as I am a full time farmer.

You are right though about meat chickens not being kept in cages. All caged chooks are for eggs, as it makes egg collection much easier. Free range layers are much more labour intensive.

Meat chooks are a special breed and are so big and heavy that they only walk short distances at a time. They are kept in large barns with many feeders and drinkers. They spend most of there time sitting while they eat or drink and only stand for short periods. I know people who have bought meat chooks to breed with their chooks to increase their meat yield. They behave exactly the same in free range situations and even though they have acres to explore, they just move between the feed and water. They dont live long either and the oldest I know of is 2.
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I also have been around farms my entire life having a shearer and farm manager for a father.
 
I eat meat, but less than I used to. i don't have any political reason for cutting back. It's mainly for health reasons.

My dad, who's always been in vigorous health, was recently diagnosed with gout. The docs told him that eating a lot of meat was a likely cause. He's still very active at 65 and hates to just sit around, but the gout is apparently painful enough to keep him from doing a lot of things he likes to do.

i'm not going to take an extreme measure and give up meat altogether, but I am trying to eat less red meat and pork and more fish and poultry, which I really like anyway.

Basically, I think people are meant to eat meat, just not loads of it every day. Nature, even to people like me who like to observe and admire it, is brutal. No matter how nice or ethical we try to be, it will continue to be so. Nature knows nothing of politics, only survival. There are plenty of species that would be happy to devour people if the opportunity presented itself. We're animals, like it or not, and eating other living things is what we do.
 
Yes I eat meat. I enjoy a good hamburger and Five Guys makes an excellent one. I really have reduced the amount though over the years.
 
I stopped eating meat 20 years ago.

I dont miss it one !

[it must be an American thing,burger,burger,burger,stems from Popeye,mind you.Didnt he eat Spinach?]
 
Yes, I do - Omnivore. But mind: from sustainable sources and out on the farm / range livestock, chicken, turkey and pigs (In Europe it is definitely not a marketing gimmick and there is a grading system towards total free range as opposed to that wonderful broiler house shown here).
 
People who don't eat meat

Did it actually shock you when you found out about how meat is produced like it is some big secret? I was raised on a farm/feed lot/poultry farm. I was aware of it from an early age. Kinda weird to find people that naive.
 
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That is what the inside of an American Broiler House is like.
 
I said no as I don't eat sea food but I do eat domesticated animals as they are not truely wild (not to say they deserve to be slaughtered). My father grew up on a farm so I guess there was no way avoid eating meat for me.
 
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