Would you eat meat if you had to slaughter the animals yourself?
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In my opinion, it is easy to be blind to the horrors that animals raised for food endure when you buy your meat pre-packaged at the grocery store. The truth is that most animals raised for food do not live in wide open pastures. They are born, raised and killed in factories. It makes me wonder if people actually had to face the animals before their death if they would still have such an appetite for meat.
Would you eat meat if you had to kill the animals yourself?
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Treasures-By-Brenda says:
I really don't think I could kill the animal and, if I could, I highly doubt I could eat it.
Posted June 02, 2009
sana says:
KILLING OR SAY EVEN WATCHING AN ANIMAL BEING KILLED CAN BE AN EYE OPENER. PUT A BLADE ON YR WRIST AND JUST TRY SLITTING IT, THAT PAIN MULTILIED BY 10000 TIMES OR MORE IS FELT BY THAT LIVING BEING WE JUST ROASTED IN OVEN.
Posted May 08, 2009
Duckylurve says:
Nope, but I'm a veg head as it is. I would be more likely to eat meat if i killed it myself though because factory farms are cruel and in no way natural.
Posted April 21, 2009
csibesz says:
Once I tried to kill a cat fish, and couldn't do it. So, no way!
Posted December 27, 2008
EelKat says:
I stopped eating meat when I was 6 years old, after I made the connection between my pet chickens in the yard and the dead chicken on the table. At first it was just chicken, but by the end of the year I found out that McDonalds cheeseburgers where made out of cows, as was roost beef, and by the end of the summer I stopped eating all meat all together, based on the fact that animals were my friends, and I do not eat my friends.
In other words I grew up to become an outspoken, PG boycotting, sign toting animal rights activist extremist, because I couldn't stand to see animals being killed. (I grew up on a farm.) So in a way it was me looking ahead and seeing that if I took over the farm (which I eventually did) I would be killing animals for food, and that thought turned me full swing around into becoming a vegetarian, so, no I won't eat meat if I had to kill them myself, because that's the very reason I stopped eating meat in the first place!
Posted September 15, 2008
Yes
meat eater says:
Yes, I use to live on a farm.
Posted November 06, 2009
meat lord says:
yes
Posted November 04, 2009
Robin Hood45 says:
Yes I would and I do. Its a whole lot easier eating meat when
you know where it comes from and its living conditions.
Harder if you name it.
Posted May 23, 2009
ThatGuySteve says:
Unfortunately it is not a part of our culture to do this, or even acknowledge that it's done.
Push come to shove, I think I would be able to butcher my own animal if the need arises. I have caught, prepared and cooked fish before.
Posted April 14, 2009
babyleaps says:
Yes, I raise the meat I eat now. I know that the animals in my care have happy, clean, and well-fed lives, with normal social orders.
Posted March 24, 2009
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Jun 2, 2009 @ 7:57 pm
- Interesting subject, thanks for making me think about it. Your Monkeybrains lens is blessed by Brenda.
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- josefgraf josefgraf Sep 26, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
- If those who consume mass meat products could witness either a) the conditions 95% of the animals in the factory farm industry have to endure, or b) the loss that is accruing in humanity's inner life due to this animal abuse - the industry would grind to a halt overnight. Surely the human race cannot be as diabolical as its relationship with the animal kingdom suggests.
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- SunGal SunGal Aug 2, 2008 @ 11:41 pm
- My mom was raised on a farm and one of her chores was to kill and pluck the chickens. But they took good care of their animals and when it was time, they killed them humanely. If I had to do it to feed my family I would. I don't eat much meat, it has mostly lost its appeal for me, but if I do, I buy free range.
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- EverythingMouse EverythingMouse Jul 13, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
- I think this is a very interesting question and I think for the majority surely the answer is no. Perhaps if people realized exactly how meat is processed and animals are treated they may think twice about eating it - and putting pressure on the food industry to change. I have been a vegetarian since I was 7 years old so for me the answer is definitely no!
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- Wildman Wildman Jun 25, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
- I have killed animals for food (rabbits, chickens, fish, sheep and a pig) and no issues with it. I would rather kill my own meat than eat the force fed mass produced, bland tasteless rubbish that ends up in supermarkets. If you look after your livestock, let them live a normal andnatural life followed by a quick painless death, it is far better for the animal than a life in a feedlot or other intensive farming situation.
Most people are not in a situation where they can be self sufficient so you are at the mercy of what food is supplied that you have access to, currently this includes me, however I buy free range meat and eggs from a good butcher, never from the supermarket. It just tastes better. My kids are not sheltered from where meat comes from, my 3yr old daughter is happy to describe how bacon and ham come from pigs. Not an issue.
Eating animals for food has been going on for years and is perfectly natural, that said, killing for fun is not good and should not be encouraged.
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