It's about choice.
Whey should what I choose to eat or not eat annoy you? I just hate the idea of an animal suffering while it's alive, whether it's reared for food or a pet.
( girlinthehole, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:06, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Sorry Blousie
I don't mean to be preachy myself, it's probably mostly because of my friend who is pescatarian who has a great many annoying qualities and she develops affectations just so she can be different, I feel the vegetarianism is one of them. She also claims she needs to eat fish or she'll die of anaemia or something. I'm anaemic, I just take iron tablets.

I know it's a choice and I eat all the animals so I shouldn't complain really, but I feel just as bad for fish that are caught in nets or by hooks and then killed, especially stuff like lobster where they are kept alive in the freezer until they are smashed over the head or boiled alive. Not that many of us will eat lobster on a daily basis!

I think if you're going to be veggie you should go the whole hog (ha, sorry), but you're right it is about choice and it's certainly not up to me what anyone eats.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:11, Reply)

I doubt crustaceans have the nervous system in place to suffer greatly, but that's just my guess.
I understand what you're saying but goddamit.....I miss chicken, even after all these years : )
( girlinthehole, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:15, Reply)

You've answered your own question so the new question is when you do eat chicken
How are you gonna prepare it? A simple roast or something a bit more fancy?
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:20, Reply)

I missed chicken quite a lot
I missed everything though. If it wasn't for Wiggy I think I'd stil be veggie, it was just that whenever he cooked tea he would make his and then he would make the veggie version for me and his would always look and smell so much nicer than mine, it got really depressing. The veggie choices are pretty good nowadays, I think I even had a fake chicken kiev, but there's no substitute for the real thing.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:27, Reply)

"I think if you're going to be veggie you should go the whole hog"
Presumably you believe that all meat eaters should eat all animals then and not have any emotional issues regarding cats, dogs or horses.
(Cave Duck, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:24, Reply)

well yeah kind of!
It's only really by chance that we've befriended cats and dogs over any other animals. Some people keep chickens, ducks and geese as pets and they wouldn't dream of eating them.

I've been to China, I've eaten dog.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:28, Reply)

I'd eat dog, no problem.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:30, Reply)

You and me both
not cats though. I freely admit that's because I like them as animals. The rest I don't give a shit about and I'll mange away all I like on them.
( Kroney, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)

Everyone was shocked when ostrich and penguin came up in the supermarkets
but I think the more they make it mainstream the less people will be bothered by it.

I don't think anyone in the West will ever think it's ok to eat cats though, we've kept them elevated to the god-like status the Egyptians first did.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)

And rat?
Sorry.
I'm just making the general point that for most people there is an emotional/moral element to deciding what they eat.
(Cave Duck, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)

I'm not sure I'd eat rat
but that's because they're a bit disease ridden. I think I would go on taste, I don't think a rat would be very tasty. Plus there wouldn't be much meat on it unless it was one of those fuck off dog rats.

Same with hammy hamsters, pointless to cook it, it's tiny. However, I did see on a travel blog that someone had eaten guinea pig in Thailand and it made me feel a bit funny. However, I think that was the photo, it looked like a skinned guinea pig. I don't like food that looks like what it used to be, I hate whole fish in restaurants.

I understand the point you're making though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:36, Reply)

Not really. Anyone can pick and choose
If you want to be vegetarian, fine. Your choice. We all have the right to chose what we eat. But basically:

- don't preach on about it being healthier because it isn't
- Actually, don't preach full stop.
- don't even attempt to make your children be veggie. If you "can't bring yourself to handle meat" you shouldn't have bred in the first place and
- FFS don't be vegan. That is wrong. You have the right to choose, unless your choice is to be an idiot, at which point I'm taking your right to choice off you, forcibly if necessary.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)