I just saw what an actual monkfish looks like…

[MillyGoat]

… and found out it’s also a bottom feeder, I don’t think I can ever eat it again. 🤮

What have you found out that, years after you started doing or eating something you liked, has put you off forever??

They were wrong.
Dairy farmers use a somatic cell count. Such milk is discarded.
Don't drink cow's milk if you don't want to, but your reason not to is a myth.

@BetteDavisChin
A good few years ago I went with a friend who was viewing a puppy , unknown to me it was at a chicken farm and the owner was sorting out boxes of dead male one day old chicks , ready for the reptile pet market .

Oh, blimey OP! Yes it is off the menu for me haha

That must have been a pleasant day out!

THIS.
It gave me nightmares, literally. Mainly in Australia.

''Europe has already figured out a solution to this, this is completely unnecessary. They developed a scanner that can quickly tell which eggs are male and which are female and can separate them, so the male eggs never hatch to begin with, they just stay un-incubated eggs. This is not just much more humane, but it is also much more cost-efficient because you don't have to incur costs for incubating, feeding, staffing, manually identifying chicken sex, incurring a 50% loss of eggs/chicks, etc. With this technology, even the greediest business owner has zero excuse to be inhumane. Europe shows a lot of leadership in animal rights, we need to learn from them.''
^^

Otherwise, as newly hatched minutes old male chicks, they fall down a chute int spinning blades and are macerated alive.

Their tiny bodies reduced to nothing but a paste.

Probably to end up in dog and cat food.

I asked my dad was monkfish looked like. He told me it's "one ugly fucker"

My son's a bit obsessed with seafood, I took him to a fishmonger and the guy demonstrated exactly this... he loved it!

Oh joy another innocuous thread getting detailed by the vegans 🙄

Well, he was probably no oil painting.
(apologies if he's Pierce Brosnan)

Monkfish look like a deep sea fish - but to another monkfish, they probably look handsome .
''There's my hubs! Isn't he gorgeous...we have a long and happy marriage, and he's great with the kids, once they are old enough to float to the sea bed. 💓

All his own teeth 😁

I'm not a vegan, but no animal should be minced alive -and cattle do get distressed when their calves are removed from them, just to make milk for greedy humans.
Animal welfare matters to a lot of people.

Ref the poster who mentioned udders covered in scabs and milk with blood and pus. I used to work as a milk recorder for National Milk Records which involves being in the parlour drawing off milk samples per cow once a month. All udders were cleaned prior to the pumps attaching, the udder skin was like velvet and not a scab in sight.

Incidentally the cows were all very interested in what I was doing and when queuing to go in would stand around my table at the end of the parlour watching me. If I was inattentive a nose and a giant purple tongue would get very close to my face in an attempt at a lick.

The farmers knew all their cows by name.

@RedRobinGoesBobbing The male chicks, yes, awful.

Lovely to hear that, @OSU . I thought the scabs and pus thing must be a myth. Good to have that confirmed.
In any case, if there were any scabs obviously they would just be scraped off to make black pudding.

I'd be much more put off by the mystery contents of a standard sausage - you know exactly what you're getting with haggis (and its delicious!)

Geese force fed to make Foie Gras.

The suffering of ''Gavage'' is horrendous. {Knew a vet who really campaigns against it}.

Yes to the sausage! I only ever buy them when they’ve been made at the butchers…

I'm not a vegan, but no animal should be minced alive -and cattle do get distressed when their calves are removed from them, just to make milk for greedy humans.
Animal welfare matters to a lot of people.

This is true. I remember staying at a campsite and there was a field of cattle in the next field. At night their cries were haunting and very uncomfortable to listen to and went on all night. I asked the owner what was the matter with them and he confirmed that they had been separated from their calves. It was a horrible they were so distressed.

That octopuses are so intelligent. I used to enjoy eating them but just can't do it now.

Yes it's ok for a calf, not a baby🤢

All fish swim in fish and other aquatic creature shit, bottom feeder or not!
I don't eat fish
Of any sort!

@CyranoDeBergerQuack Do you check what type of fertilisers have been used to produce plant foods that you eat, to ensure there's no manure, bone meal, fish waste, etc. being used?

My post was lighthearted - sorry you've not seen it that way. Should I have illustrated with smiley emojis for clarity?

Except that cows milk is not 25% pus or any such nonsense. Nor are their udders covered in scabs etc .