I find it stupid when meat eaters refuse meat

[Ryoko]

You have no problem eating a cow or a pig but god forbid if someone stuck a plate of rabbit or dog in front of you.

meat is meat, you wanna eat it don't be racist about what animal it comes from or screamish about the processes involved in it's production.

Speciesist.

Eh? Not sure I get your point? So people are not allowed to have different tastes?

Well I only eat chicken - does that make me a chickenist???

YANBU.

This is a subject which has been aired many times and regardless of views to the contrary I still think that a lot of people wouldn't eat dead animals if they had to kill them themselves, watch what really happens in a slaughterhouse or eat animals which they might generally consider a pet.

Does that mean vegetarians have to eat all vegetables?

Did you mean squeamish?

And anyway, I'm not. I've been writing to my local Morrisons to get poodle on the shelves for four and a half years

I eat carrots, parsnips, grapes but god forbid if someone puts brussels sprouts or green cabbage on my plate.

Valhalla,

I'd feel a lot better if I were responsible for killing my own food - it's about taking responsibility. I'll eat anything and I will always remember that an animal died for it, but I'd love to be able to farm my own, arrange the slaughter of my own and eat my own, wasting nothing.

I do think it's hypocritical to eat anonymous meat from packets in a supermarket but balk at eating a recognisable pig on a spit because it looks like a dead animal - especially if the pig in question is outdoor reared and organic as opposed to an anaemic intensively farmed pork chop from Holland or Denmark.

There is nothing I wouldn't eat Ryoko.We eat rabbit a lot-dh shoots them.No squeamishness in this household with regard to food.

It's not squeamish to want to minimise the cruelty involved in animal slaughter. Neither is is racist to not want to eat certain meat - daft maybe but each to their own.

I like the word "screamish". That describes my present mood pretty well.

I wouldn't mind rabbit but I definitely wouldn't eat a dog. Dogs are carnivorous, eating carnivore meat is supposed to be fucking disgusting.

Herbivore flesh for me only please.

Greeneyesand ham.I'm eying up our guinea pigs-they are good and fat now.

Um is it not illegal to eat dog??

I agree, it's a bit silly that in this country we are so squeamish about eating certain things. For example horse meat which is commonly eaten in other countries , why don't we eat it ?

It's nothing to do with not liking the taste, it's just culturally unacceptable for some reason.

Please don't make me eat broad beans (shudder).

Oh chill out OP it's all about personal taste.

It's like saying vegetarians should love all non meat products

I will give anything ago (within reason) I don't like the idea of eating a rabbit as I have one as a pet but on my plate as I said I would try it.

But to be honest I don't like thinking about the animal whatever animal it is whilst eating it.I was having this conversation the other day, If I were a farmer could I really send my cows or pigs off to be slaughtered.Proberly not, I too weak.I have also tried not eating meat but don't eat alot of vegetables and did find it extremely hard!

Rabbit is nice but dog is a bit chewy, personlly I like horses so wouldn't eat one unless it was that or starve to death. But to be honest if the choice is any kind of meat or starve to death, the humans around me are looking pretty good...

I agree that if you couldn't kill it then you shouldn't eat it. I can kill animals, was raised on a farm and we killed our own meat. I have never killed a cow (cause they are big and you have to do it properly), but have held the knife for sheep and chickens etc. I have also had to have my horse shot because she had fallen and shattered too legs and have shot two dogs which were killing livestock.

I like tofu but you would need to hold a gun to my head to make me eat Quorn again.

nope I just couldn't do it, I would proberly starve!

Dogs are omnivorous [pedant]

I had a really good converstaion with a vegan group in the city a couple of months ago. They had a really thought provoking campaign where they had installed a professionally sprayed "burger" van offering "hot dogs". I'll leave the rest to your imagination. My view is I would not eat what we had understood to be a companion animal for thousands of years.... sort of like eating someone elses Grandmother, really. But I do believe we are omnivores - even though I was a vegetarian for 10 years. I was possibly tainted in my return to meat in that I became a vegetarian in 1983 and became ill through not understanding proper nutrition, and veggie meals out of the home being pretty much hard to find back then.

I would never eat Rabbit - but that is in the name of my dad, bless him. I eat meat but I like to know it has been reared properly. I would love to know it had been killed properly, but I think we have swallowed EU directives so hook line and sinker that unless I were married to Ray Mears I'm never going to be convinced, no matter what RSPCA standards/outdoor reared/organic are totally guilt free.

I bet you could if you (or your kids) got hungry enough.

Bollocks.

We're human. We over-identify. It's one of our greatest weaknesses, but also our greatest strengths.

I could never eat rabbit because I once had a pet one. I've been assured that it's very tasty, but I'll never touch it. You know what, I won't eat human either (but we're just meat...).

But you know what, if you can strangle your own chicken, good for you.