Question for the meat eaters

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In my little world of random thoughts, this is something that I ponder regularly...
If you had to 'grow your own' (ie rear and kill the animal), could you and would you still eat meat?

This isn't having a go at meat eaters before anyone gets on their high horse either :nono: I am a meat eater myself, but if I had to rear and the kill the animal, I think I'd be vegetarian as I just couldn't do it. I'm one of these sad people that likes to buy my meat nicely packaged :naughty: not resembling the animal it once was :nuts:

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I could eat it I think....I'm not sure. Depends on the animal.
Infact actually Im not sure I could, if I had to tend to its growth etc and nurture it.
I certainly couldn't kill it myself.
 
Wouldn't bother me. I quite often go shooting and fishing and eat the product of my days work. Fresher the better.
 
Suasages, burgers, corned beef and chicken curry.. I can eat the lot.. But when it comes to biting into a large piece of flesh from something thats had a life... I just cant do it. Daft innit.

So if I had to kill a suasage I probably wouldnt be able to :)
 
I only eat chicken, turkey or fish. I don't think I'd be too bothered about killing any of them or preparing them other than the time involved. I'd rather it was there ready to cook. :lol:
Do we have to catch them as well, because I'd have to give up fish. The thought of going fishing would have me asleep in seconds :yawn: :lol:
 
Eat it, yes certainly , IF that was the idea from the off. Kill it? hmmm....certainly not bare handed like Joe's parents wringing of chickens necks [my nan used to do the same, they kept chickens in the yard, but then my grandad was a stockman and laterly when he was less mobile, worked in an abbatoir, so animals as a food commodity was perfectly normal] but using a humane implement .... hmmm, not sure, probably, but wouldnt like to say unless in that position.
 
We used to keep chickens when I was a boy. I've not done the killing (but I was there when it happened), but have been involved in all the other stages of keeping and preparation. Best darn chicken I've tasted too. So I could.
 
Yes, I have raised geese and turkeys for the table and had the occasional chicken and duck. Frequently collect freshly killed pheasants for dinner. I was bought up in a farming community and my first job when I left school was on a rabbit and goat farm and these (most of the male kids anyway) were all destined for eating. The kids went to the abattoir but the rabbits were born, raised, killed and butchered on the farm.
 
I don't think I could be bothered with the effort and time taken to raise them. God bless commercialism :)
 
Yes I could although from past experience I'm really crap at skinning them and waste more than I want to.

The trouble with today's throwaway society is the amount of animals that are killed and never eaten. A total waste of life.
 
Yes you can't beat fresh meat :thumbs:
(or veg for that matter)

Though in todays society its much more conveinient to nip to tescos or even
have them deliver, now, is that lazy or what ?
( and yes I have used the service :D)
 
I've shot, skinned/feathered, gutted and eaten rabbits & pigeons lots of times.

I think rearing and killing and gutting a cow or something as big would be too much hassle.

I would still eat meat but only meat from small animals I think :)
 
Mohain said:
I've shot, skinned/feathered, gutted and eaten rabbits & pigeons lots of times.

I think rearing and killing and gutting a cow or something as big would be too much hassle.

I would still eat meat but only meat from small animals I think :)
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I had no idea that people would eat Pigeons!! :| Taste like chicken?
 
No, I'd have to go vegetarian for sure. I got weepy when the lady had to kill the poor little crab I bought at the fish shop while on vacation. Also, I can't eat meat ie: was at a wedding and they had a pig on a roaster...uh, no thanks. Its okay if I just see the ham, sitting on a plate, but when you watch them slice it off the poor thing...just ruins it somehow.
 
i wouldn't like to kill it, but i wouldn't have a problem with skinning and prepping it to eat :)

Saying that, i could kill a pheasant or duck or chicken, but not a pig / sheep or cow.
 
If you run over a rabbit with enough wheelspin, it skins itself
;)
 
Smiffy said:
If you run over a rabbit with enough wheelspin, it skins itself
;)
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not quite accurate, if you hit it hard enough,
it gets skinned and gutted :thumbs: ;)
 
Used to work as a herdsman on a farm that supplied the local butcher who supplied the meat I ate, so I often ate meat that I had helped raise. I also used to go ferreting for rabbits and did the killing, skinning and gutting.

I can honestly say that although I never really enjoyed the killing and dressing, I did enjoy the results and wouldn't have a problem (apart from forgotten skills) doing it today.
 
im kinda in the i couldn't be bothered camp, could i watch someone kill my dinner and prepare it for cooking yes could i be bothered to do it my self no.
 
We had a goat when we were children - My parents had this romantic notion of milking it and saving money. My sisters and I fed it, watered it, and cleaned out the "shed", we even took it for walks. Not quite clear on the reasoning behind why, but I also accompanied my dad (with penny the goat) to the local abbatoir, whereupon a deal was struck and we were to return to collect a freezer full of prime cuts.
Never watched the slaughter, but didn't really think about how the meat on the plate was once a valued family pet.

Regularly go sea fishing, and so far haven't had any problems with eating anything I catch either - These I do kill, gut, clean and fillet......

Oh and I once tried skinning a rabbit but made such a hogs bottom of it that it wasn't worth cooking. Shame, I love rabbit stew.....
 
i wish my wife was more of a meat eater .....:D
 
comet here i cum sorry come
 
I'm quite happy eating meat, but I love animals too.

I could easily see me becoming too attached to them and not wanting to kill them. I'm quite pragmatic though - if I needed the food, I would do whatever was necessary.

For me, the killing part would be the hardest... This raises a couple of questions.

If I had to cut its throat - then no, I don't think I could.
If I had to "press a button" - then I guess so.
 
PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

:D
 
I have no problem raising / hunting / fishing /killing / skinning any beast at all. Cow's are a bit too much to handle on a farm if the place is not properly equipped. So all of ours would go to slaughter house. I have known a couple of people that had turned to the veggie side after hearing pigs waiting / being slaughtered until they had been deprived of bacon butties for 6 months :D

Just a canibal at heart, nothing beats good meat and well grown veg, perfect combination.:thumbs:
 
GemRebel said:
I had no idea that people would eat Pigeons!! :| Taste like chicken?
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Bit more gamey, lovely done in tin foil on a barbecue :)

No problem with the original question at all, in fact our chickens are already called, casserloe, fricasse, roast, curry, pie and broth :D
 
I am part vegetarian....

I will only eat animals that eat grass

;)
 
i was in the TA in 2001 when we had a massive Foot & Mouth outbreak.. THAT nearly made me turn Veggie!!! but not quite.. :thumbs:

We had to dispose of the cadavers and burn them.. a lot were left out in the open and would start to decompose!! they would blow up and swell then burst when we picked them pu!!! it WAS'Nt a pretty sight or SMELL!!! some guys even swollowed some of the fluids that had burst!! haha.. :thinking: actually, it wasnt that funny!! lol..

But, i could kill and eat my own food, iv done it before and id love to be able to have a small holding and live off my own food.. Peacfull in the knowledge that my animals had had a good life... :) Bring it on....
 
Geordi69 said:
I have known a couple of people that had turned to the veggie side after hearing pigs waiting / being slaughtered until they had been deprived of bacon butties for 6 months :D
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When I was about 14, I saw a lorry load of lambs being unloaded for slaughter. I turned veggie that day and lasted about 3 years until I succumbed to a bacon buttie :$ I have only recently (in the last couple of years) started to eat lamb again. I do like meat and couldn't imagine ever going veggie again, but I like to buy my meat looking nothing like the animal it once was. I couldn't even touch a whole fish - I have to buy it all filleted and ready to cook :lol:
 
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