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.

Guinea pig is quite nice apparently:-

drool

Mmmmmm

Sometimes I wish there were Facebook style "like" buttons....

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

If it moves, I'll eat it........

If there is one thing I actually kind of respect about PETA it is that they think we should not use animals at all, including as pets.

I mean we are responsible for turning this into this. Now that was cruel.

Heh, if PETA had its way, I would be dead.

(Hard to hate pharmaceuticals when you rely on them to breathe)

Quorn is bloody disgusting, I agree :o.

I don't eat dog or horse or venison but I do eat pigs and cows. My justification is that I'm a hypocrite. Works well.

Rabbit is delicious; horse is very tasty too; I wouldn't have a problem eating guinea pig, but dog really doesn't appeal. Don't really like dogs much anyway.

I don't want to slaughter my own meat, neither do I want to fire my own bricks, mill my own flour or mine my own coal. I don't have a sheep from which I get wool to make my jumpers. In society we divide our work, employing specialist skills and economies of scale...

"My justification is that I'm a hypocrite. Works well." - works for me.

I think PETA are a bunch of fucking nutters by the way, but at least they are committed fucking nutters.

I think that's the perfect argument for why we, as a society, have become somewhat overpopulated, Undutchable (and this is in no way a lecture to you or anyone, but I think we have in the main lost touch with community and all that it means. We no longer know what the butcher does - we just buy plastic meat in plastic packages off the supermarket shelf - partly as the butcher is no longer allowed to "butcher" and partly because we don't question why you can buy a full grown chicken for £2.99 and consumerism has allowed the life of a chiclken to cost that, regardless of how it lived.

There's a ) missing in that somewhere. Insert it where you wish

and you give a fuck because....

I think it's perfectly reasonable to care about the processes involved in producing the meat I consume. It's important that the animal has led an acceptable quality of life, so I won't eat battery chicken (for example). It's important that the animal is slaughtered in a humane way. For this reason, I wouldn't be willing to slaughter it myself; I just don't know how to, and I'd rather it was done by someone competent. I'd be willing to do it if I knew how though.

Meat isn't just meat, and it's really important that we think about and care about what happened to it before it appeared on our plates, and respect that an animal died for it. All meat is not equal.

MotherJack: that's possibly a little simplistic :) I think better nutrition and medical science played their parts too...

(fuuuuuck PETA are right... I should have died at the age of 8 after all)

Damsel.... "competent" abbatoirs that ensure we have meat on our tables for the price we expect are horrific. EU rulings mean we have abbatoirs (even organic/outdoor reared etc etc) and are generally forced to use them. If you eat meat, you need to accept that the processes at the end of an animals life are in the main, horrific.

I do find it quite strange that meat eaters can be so against certain kinds of meat. I saw it on Come Dine With Me a while ago, a woman who said she couldn't eat any animal which was "cute".

That said, the reason I'm so okay with eating meat is that I've never had to think about where it comes from. When you are offered something new, like rabbit or whatever, it does hit home very quickly that it's an animal, whereas a few chicken breasts which you are so programmed to recognise as food and not animal as you've been eating them for your entire life will be cooked, eaten and turned into toilet fodder without me giving a second thought to the poor old chicken who gaves its life for the sake of my chasseur.

Very simplistic Rubberduck, I agree totally

I find it quite strange that vegetable eaters can be so against brussel sprouts. I mean, they are CLEARLY a superior vegetable and people irrationally take against them.

I think it's because they're not as pretty as peas...

Oh oh... And meat eaters that don't eat EVERY part of the animal - clearly scum. I mean WTF is wrong with you?! Can't you see that you're partsist for not eating cow's eyeball and rabbit nail clipping? FFS that's the best bit

I'd be vegetarian if i had to kill my own animals. yes, i know its hypocritical.

I also dont eat carnivores. thats mainly religious/cultural reasons.

I think that's rubbish- if you were really starving you would kill!