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I think I am evolving ... into a vegetarian.
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I have been considering turning vegetarian (at least, partially, for the time being as I adjust).
I have recently been growing more 'aware' of animal welfare in farming and given it some thought .... I cannot abide the thought of discarding any meat left on my plate after a meal when I know that a living animal has been slaughtered for this purpose. Throwing away its carcass just because I'm 'full' seems so disrespectful to its sacrifice ...
The other day, I was given some KFC chicken and I started to wonder how a huge company like that keeps its chickens and did a bit of a search on Google ... and found this :- http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.co.uk/ from the http://www.peta.org.uk/ site.
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=hillside
Now, I know that this anti-KFC site has its own political agenda and I don't want to come over all precious and sentimental - but I do worry that because humankind has scraped its way to the top of the evolutionary ladder that we feel we can keep our lesser co-habitants of the Earth in such appalling conditions to mass produce them as food for us ... and we are hardly deserving caretakers of the Earth anyway.
Have any other meat eaters started feeling any anxiety as to how their food is produced?
And are there any meat eaters on here that really don't give a shit ... ? Would you eat meat regardless of how its produced?
I have recently been growing more 'aware' of animal welfare in farming and given it some thought .... I cannot abide the thought of discarding any meat left on my plate after a meal when I know that a living animal has been slaughtered for this purpose. Throwing away its carcass just because I'm 'full' seems so disrespectful to its sacrifice ...
The other day, I was given some KFC chicken and I started to wonder how a huge company like that keeps its chickens and did a bit of a search on Google ... and found this :- http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.co.uk/ from the http://www.peta.org.uk/ site.
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=hillside
Now, I know that this anti-KFC site has its own political agenda and I don't want to come over all precious and sentimental - but I do worry that because humankind has scraped its way to the top of the evolutionary ladder that we feel we can keep our lesser co-habitants of the Earth in such appalling conditions to mass produce them as food for us ... and we are hardly deserving caretakers of the Earth anyway.
Have any other meat eaters started feeling any anxiety as to how their food is produced?
And are there any meat eaters on here that really don't give a shit ... ? Would you eat meat regardless of how its produced?
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Darn tooting.
I am more bothered about the chemical processes some of my "food" goes through than the fact that it's meat, tbh. Trans fats, aspartame and soy based oils, and a whole load of other stuff should be nowhere near the dinner table.
http://www.themeatrix.com/
Just for grins.
Try to buy your meat from reputed local butchers. Don't buy or eat products from large shops or fast food outlets where animals are likely to be kept in undesirable conditions and the food mass produced. Buy organic. And so on...
To be honest, I am partial to a bit of steak too ... as Alladin says, maybe I ought to shop at places where the welfare of the animal can be established ... but its definitely no more KFC for me ...
Yeah sorry, I don't prescribe to the whole "animals have rights" view. I'm only interested in my food and the impact factory farming is having on my world.
You can go and be as cruel as you want to the little piggies, as long as I don't get poisoned I don't care.
Fishing and hunting are both great fun.
There's definitely a lot to be said for eating only free-range organic meat, and meat that's sourced locally so you know more about where it's come from and the likely treatement it's had (before and after death, if you know what I mean).
I'm a vegetarian though, and have been for almost a decade. You stop missing steak and the like very quickly, imo.
What I meant is that people only seem to care about what animals are cute... I mean how many meat eaters would eat cat or dog?
Fish are cool, you can train them to do (very simply) tricks, lke coming to the surface of the water when a bell rings so they can be fed. They're also capable of feeling pain.
How dare you!
One of them says even walking past a greasy spoon is agony.
STREAKY STRIPS were my saviour when veggie
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/food/morning-star-streaky-strips/
most veggie bacon tastes like cardboard but these are nice.
The eating 'something that was once walking around' has really never bothered me. I go fishing and hunting a fair bit and I eat local meat because I do have a problem with some farming methods - at least with local meat I know where it's coming from.
If there's one thing I miss it's a chicken curry.
Humans have hunted animals since the beginning of their existence and meat has always been a major part of our diets (I know we can have non-meat diets aswell btw.) I'm not going to change my views just cos "I feel so sorry for the poor wee animals"
A dirty fat pig would probably kill the lot of ya in mortal combat!
But we could go out and hunt, just like a lion could. We haven't evolved not to do it, we just choose not to. We still have the ability to use tools and work in groups, which is something we evolved that enabled more efficient hunting. I would say we are natural hunters, just as the lion is, because we still possess that ability.
Different issues hold different meanings to different people.