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31-01-2010, 01:36 PM
I don't mean that nastily to meat eaters, each to their own
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31-01-2010, 01:47 PM
Originally Posted by settagirl 
Something I have always wanted to ask meat eaters, would you still eat it if you had to kill it and skin it etc...? I have this theory that I couldn't do that and have no right therefore to eat meat, my dogs would, in the wild kill and eat meat so therefore they are given raw meat to eat and not fed a vegetarian diet.
I don't mean that nastily to meat eaters, each to their own
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31-01-2010, 01:59 PM
Originally Posted by settagirl
Something I have always wanted to ask meat eaters, would you still eat it if you had to kill it and skin it etc...? I have this theory that I couldn't do that and have no right therefore to eat meat, my dogs would, in the wild kill and eat meat so therefore they are given raw meat to eat and not fed a vegetarian diet.
I don't mean that nastily to meat eaters, each to their own
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31-01-2010, 02:06 PM
Originally Posted by Ripsnorterthe2nd
In all honesty, yes I would. It wouldn't be nice and I certainly wouldn't enjoy it, but if you want to eat meat you have to be prepared to accept it.
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31-01-2010, 02:36 PM
Originally Posted by settagirl
Something I have always wanted to ask meat eaters, would you still eat it if you had to kill it and skin it etc...? I have this theory that I couldn't do that and have no right therefore to eat meat, my dogs would, in the wild kill and eat meat so therefore they are given raw meat to eat and not fed a vegetarian diet.
I don't mean that nastily to meat eaters, each to their own
So - probably not.
However - if it was the only option avalible to me....
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31-01-2010, 02:42 PM
Originally Posted by settagirl
Something I have always wanted to ask meat eaters, would you still eat it if you had to kill it and skin it etc...? I have this theory that I couldn't do that and have no right therefore to eat meat, my dogs would, in the wild kill and eat meat so therefore they are given raw meat to eat and not fed a vegetarian diet.
I don't mean that nastily to meat eaters, each to their own
Slaughtered our own turkeys at Christmas and ate one (and sold the others), got 4 cockerels living in my polytunnel that will be killed in a month or so for my freezer, and I've got 2 pheasants for tea tonight that need plucking etc before we eat them!
If it was possible (and legal) to keep larger animals and do the same, we would do. I'd love a couple of pigs for the table, but space and DEFRA regulations are against me in that respect.
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31-01-2010, 02:56 PM
Originally Posted by settagirl
Something I have always wanted to ask meat eaters, would you still eat it if you had to kill it and skin it etc...? I have this theory that I couldn't do that and have no right therefore to eat meat, my dogs would, in the wild kill and eat meat so therefore they are given raw meat to eat and not fed a vegetarian diet.
I don't mean that nastily to meat eaters, each to their own
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31-01-2010, 03:15 PM
My hubby is a shepherd, so our livelihood depends on people eating meat. We obviously know exactly how our lambs are raised and kept, the ones for our freezer are also slaughtered locally. Hill lamb/sheep actually have one of the best lives of all our meat animals, as they live as naturally as possible, on a heather covered hill for the duration of their lives. We have also kept pigs in the past and had them slaughtered locally. Hubby is talking about getting a couple more at the end of the year. Our beef comes directly from a small abbatoir, where standards are high. We also have our own hens (for eggs) and are considering getting a Jersey cow for milk.
As others have pointed out, if you buy your meat carefully from local butchers/farm shops then you should feel little guilt. The UK does have some of the highest welfare standards in the world and I just hope it keeps getting better and better. I hate to think of any animal suffering.
If everyone gave up meat, our sheep, cows, pigs etc would disappear fand the British countryside would also vanish. Not a nice thought imo.
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31-01-2010, 03:19 PM
Originally Posted by settagirl
Something I have always wanted to ask meat eaters, would you still eat it if you had to kill it and skin it etc...? -P
I think we`re far too divorced from the natural world. My dogs have killed - on the whole it was extremely quick and the animal didn`t suffer.
I`m far more sqeamish about factory farming than death.
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31-01-2010, 03:46 PM
Originally Posted by settagirl
Something I have always wanted to ask meat eaters, would you still eat it if you had to kill it and skin it etc...? I have this theory that I couldn't do that and have no right therefore to eat meat, my dogs would, in the wild kill and eat meat so therefore they are given raw meat to eat and not fed a vegetarian diet.
I don't mean that nastily to meat eaters, each to their own
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