World Animal Day

[emeraldking]

no, I just try not to eat meat when I don't have to. My family hunts and eats way too much meat for me to got vegan/vegetarian lol
Vegetarian is when you don't eat meat but still have, like, eggs and milk and honey and stuff, and vegan is when you don't eat anything produced from animals (meat, eggs, dairy, honey, etc.)

My grandfather from my mom's side, used to hunt. But that's also something they did back in Indonesia. Hunt to survive. In the Netherlands they needed a permit to be allowed to hunt.
What my grandfather and I share, is the fascination for animals. But him killing them and me trying to keep them alive.

 

[OliveFish05]

The thing with choosing to eat or not eat beef, cow, pork, chicken, ham, steak, etc. for the reason that you feel bad the animal had to die, is that those animals purpose in life was to be eaten. You enjoying those animals meat is them completing their purpose in life. It is what they were bred for. The animals are (in good businesses and setups) taken care of in ways to produce good meat and are humanely butchered at the needed age. They don't suffer.

Especially when the animals are sustainably raised and farmed, I have no problem eating a good ol steak or chicken.

I can totally see not eating meat because of health or diet and such though. We have friends and family who got Alpha-gal from ticks, and now they have an allergy or intolerance to red meats. My dad's side of the family loves meat. They all say "If that happens to me someday, I think I would fall over dead"

 

[Anonymous Fox]

The thing with choosing to eat or not eat beef, cow, pork, chicken, ham, steak, etc. for the reason that you feel bad the animal had to die, is that those animals purpose in life was to be eaten. You enjoying those animals meat is them completing their purpose in life. It is what they were bred for. The animals are (in good businesses and setups) taken care of in ways to produce good meat and are humanely butchered at the needed age. They don't suffer.

Especially when the animals are sustainably raised and farmed, I have no problem eating a good ol steak or chicken.

I can totally see not eating meat because of health or diet and such though. We have friends and family who got Alpha-gal from ticks, and now they have an allergy or intolerance to red meats. My dad's side of the family loves meat. They all say "If that happens to me someday, I think I would fall over dead"

what bout fast food meat?
It's so gross. Only, like, 10% of it is actually meat, the rest is muscle and bones ground up.

 

[OliveFish05]

what bout fast food meat?
It's so gross. Only, like, 10% of it is actually meat, the rest is muscle and bones ground up.

I mean thats just a matter of ingredients and taste, not so much "I feel bad eating animals"

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Only, like, 10% of it is actually meat, the rest is muscle and bones ground up.

Muscle=meat. But I know what you mean. I spent a summer working at Arby's. Oh, the horror stories...

 

[Myraan]

what bout fast food meat?
It's so gross. Only, like, 10% of it is actually meat, the rest is muscle and bones ground up.

I have a weird take on that. If I like the taste I don't care . I see it as a way of using the dead cow or chicken more efficiently.