Do you eat meat?

[ostrich]

I was raised by parents who didn’t eat meat, so I’ve actually never touched meat. It’s never appealed to me. Don’t like the idea of consuming animal flesh, either. I love animals too much to eat them. It’s just how I was raised. It doesn’t really bother me that other people eat meat, but I don’t like when people are rude or mean to me because I don’t. Honestly, I just don’t see how someone can love animals AND eat them.

 

[Elephas Maximus]

Honestly, I just don’t see how someone can love animals AND eat them.

It;s simple. You can love how they taste)))

 

[Taisha]

It;s simple. You can love how they taste)))

Maybe it only proves a lack of imagination?
Lack of imagination how animals suffer just as much as we do,
lack of imagination that there exists a big variety of equally well tasting alternatives.

 

[Elephas Maximus]

Life is impossible without suffering. No advanced neural system functions without pain. That's the price for evolution.
Making all people to give up meat-eating is as easy as making the lion to lie down with the lamb, both chewing grass.
We should accept the meat-eating people as well as we accept the carnivores (including cats & dogs, whose dried food is made from living creatures, too! But we love those 'passive killers')
Btw the vegans' love of animals is often mixed with anthropomorphism.
Everybody loves cute calves, piglets and chickens - some loves them alive only, some loves them both alive and cooked.
Now, let's imagine that in future a technology will be created to make a meat substitute from invertebrates (such as locust or mealworms), so no mammals or birds or fish will be killed for food. Along with certain proof that invertebrates actually feel pain.
How many protectors the poor, mistreated 'bugs' will find then, without big appealing eyes, without fur or feathers?
A different, less possible situation: if the farm animals' life will get better (equal to a good zoo), but they will be instantly killed at the end (less than a second of suffering), will it justify meat-eating? Or killing anything is always bad?
We kill millions of bacteria every day, when washing hands. And they suffer in their own way. For our benefit.

 

[alethionaut]

I was a strict vegetarian for nearly 15 years, on the basis of I didn't want to eat animals and so I stopped eating animals. However, I didn't look after myself or my diet and so made terrible food choices in my quest to be "morally right" (in my head, at least).

Consequently, I became dangerously anaemic and so last year ended up introducing meat into my diet. I still eat a healthy (and mostly vegetarian) diet - and have discovered the joys of bacon. Oh bacon, my friend all is forgiven!

I do make informed choices and get a lot of my meat from farming friends, so I do know about the welfare of what I eat. Each to their own though, if you want to eat it, eat it!

 

[Monty]

I still eat a healthy (and mostly vegetarian) diet - and have discovered the joys of bacon. Oh bacon, my friend all is forgiven!

I do make informed choices and get a lot of my meat from farming friends, so I do know about the welfare of what I eat. Each to their own though, if you want to eat it, eat it!

The joys of Bacon

There was a show on TV recently about a bloke who moved from Pakistan to Australia and the joy of bacon was something he commented on also.

 

[Hunterhorn]

I rarely eat beef now because venison from deer me and dad kill during hunting season. Venison has just about replaced beef in our house, we use it in many recipes that normally call for beef

 

[khakibob]

I rarely eat beef now because venison from deer me and dad kill during hunting season. Venison has just about replaced beef in our house, we use it in many recipes that normally call for beef

You're not Robinson Caruso there mate.
Organic & ethical!

Cheers Khakibob

 

[Chimpangeek]

I'm a native San Franciscan so, use your imagination.
Organic, locally grown, free-range. That's all big here, and I'm into it.
I simply gave up meat after being indoctrinated by a PETA commercial when I was 10 or 11, and eventually became a Vegan and started working/volunteering for PETA.
In the US we have way too much meat in our diets. It defenitely contributes to the obesity problem here... And the beef industry in this country is heinous. I'm not intolerant of meat-eaters though. Except for the ones who don't want to participate/understand what goes into the preparation of the meat lol. Even as a a vegan/vegetarian I worked briefly for a butcher and in working with animals I've decapitated, gutted and skinnedrat, rabbit and goat for other animals to eat (they were already dead).