Eating animals

[Bearsaloud]

To me killing animals and keeping them the way we do should be illegal. And them queuing up to be killed in an abbatoir and scream on the way in. It's barbaric and medieval in my opinion. Eat something else!

I wasn't telling anyone what to do

You're lovely

It's a cruel industry

Exactly this. The man in the film Babe stopped eating meat after filming

I watched a Sparrowhawk catch a pigeon yesterday. Sat on it for about fifteen minutes until it stopped struggling, repeatedly pecking at it. Then proceeded to pluck every feature off, and consume. Magpies with fledglings, cats with mice etc etc etc.

We eat what we need. At our very basic level we are omnivorous mammals. We need a balanced diet. We are what we are, due to our diet.

I buy expensive meat as much as I can, free range, organic, farm reared, not factory farmed. Very little processed food. Eating things like Welsh lamb is about as natural as you can get.

It might be huge news to you but, our brains are quite a bit more developed than that of Sparrowhawks.

That was my whole point. Animals aren’t shopping for and buying their meat in supermarkets, we are. we are not the same.

Not true! He was already vegetarian since 1971 and became vegan.

Don’t make stuff up, it’s embarrassing!

So do I

Yeah but bowel cancer

You really do suck up fake news donchya

But bacon!

I certainly dont feel guilty about eating animals

Yeah but run over by a bus!

Tbh I wasn’t aware it was that low already. That’s interesting

Theres no scientific evidence that this has anything to do with pain. Currently without a brain or nervous system the science isn’t there

I’m not aware that animals have the ability to grow their own food. We do. There’s a significant difference between us.

I love meat, but yeah it’s fucking horrible so honestly I ignore it on weekends when I have my non veggie days. Hypocrite? Maybe but just do what I can

@hamstersarse
if you can spare the time why ‘don’t you’ read this article from cancer research

https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/08/01/bacon-ham-hot-dogs-salami-how-does-processed-meat-cause-cancer-and-how-much-matters/

Or maybe we have the ability to care about them all. It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility to care about more than one thing at the same time and make changes for a better kinder world

We’re all animals.

Although the majority of land is either pasture or used to grow animal feed to feed the animals humans chose to eat. If we weren’t eating animals we wouldn’t need so much land cleared.

I’m a fussy eater. Really fussy. I hate it, but I will literally rather starve than try to force down food I don’t like the taste or texture of. Meat is one of the few things I do enjoy. I tried to be a vegetarian as a teenager as I too felt bad about the animals - but I made myself very unwell because I just wasn’t eating enough (and I would literally throw up if I tried to eat certain foods because the smell/taste/texture makes me gag).

So I’m a meat eater and can’t see any way that eill change. Also, I don’t absorb B12 properly and need injections. I became extremely unwell, and you can actually die from pernicious anaemia. To me this is all the proof I need that human beings are supposed to eat meat - you only get B12 naturally from animal products (meat being the main way, but also eggs, milk, etc).

I’m all for individual choice and I’d never force my meat eating ways on a vegan or vegetarian - if we host meals I will always check if anyone has any dietary requirements and make certain we have exactly what they need so no one goes hungry. If I go somewhere else, I would never insist they cook me something specific but I will check the meal in advance and decline to eat if necessary.

Long winded way of saying I understand why you feel that way, and respect your choice not to eat meat. I applaud it in a way. But I disagree with the preachy way of pushing your views on others, that’s not on at all.

They also can’t shop in Sainsburies