Meat

[vastatuuli]

I've been a vegetarian for over a year. During the past months, however, I've been giving a lot of thought to my decision and the whole topic of (not) eating meat. There are people who think my zero tolerance is unreasonable and illogical, and some arguments have convinced me that there is indeed some incoherence in my thinking. Therefore, I'm

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[dreamt]

I can't really answer the poll as I'm on the fence AND not sure it's about morals. I like chicken and fish most of all and occasionally meatballs and a certain type of meat dishes that my grandmother cooks. I have however lately stopped buying chicken because of the way they're treated in captivity. I just can't bring myself to endorse that crap and I want it to improve before I start paying again. That hasn't stopped me from eating my friend's delicious cooking though -_-;

I think that's my biggest peeve with meat eating. Seeing as how animals are killed by other animals for food and it's the circle of life and all, I don't see a problem with that as such. Yet I'm a bleeding heart and keep prey animals as pets (bunnies!). It really bothered me that someone is starting to breed rabbits here for food, yet I know I'm a hypocrite for it. I love chicken as pets too and if I had the place for it, I'd love to own some. Yet... yummiiii.

I'm so not a kitchen person. I can't cook and I don't have the patience for making the things I can make very often. I sometimes think that if I had someone in my house who loved cooking and could do so well (like one of my brother's wife gah, her cooking *.* she's a nutritionist too so... win all around) I could be happy eating nothing but veggie dishes.

I never used to like veggies and fruits much but now a days when I make salad with dinner, I end up with the bowl afterward just gorging on the stuff. NOM!

I need a chef u.u I might go vegetarian then and never feel bad about what I eat again.

[vastatuuli]

Thanks for the comment! Please don't mistake my super late reply for lack of interest or appreciation. I've continued to think about these things and all dialogue is always welcome.

I can't really answer the poll as I'm on the fence AND not sure it's about morals.

Could you elaborate on that a little - if it's not about morals, then what is it about? Or am I just missing something?

I know what you mean with the bunnies... I once stumbled across a forum where people were discussing rabbit meat production, and for some crazy reason I ended up reading this thread on ways to kill the rabbits. It was definitely informative, I was also a little shocked, but if I remember correctly, I was still an omnivore back then and just as much of a hypocrite. I guess it's just an extension of speciesism - loyalty to your own species, loyalty to the species you've chosen to live with. Companions, if you wish.

Everyone should have a chef in the family. I'm sure many more people would eat less meat if good vegetarian food only was available to them!

[dreamt]

Ooh tall order! You expect me to remember what I was thinking? XD;

About the morals... it was probably the whole "circle of life" thing. Carnivores kill herbivores, that's just how it goes but I'm not doing the killing, I'm just getting meat handed to me so it's not the same thing. If I was starving in the wilderness I could probably kill something to feed myself, but if you asked me to go to a farm, pick up an animal and kill it so we could have dinner? I'd beg for the critter's life and keep it as a pet or something. So, under my current circumstances, I'm a piss-poor carnivore.

I've reached the point where I hardly ever even buy meat to cook. If someone else cooks it, I eat it. Otherwise I just eat toast and rice puddings u.u; or like... prepared food stuffs.

When I think about eating meat, the thought of a herd of animals being killed systematically makes me feel guilty, but I'm okay with the whole 'lone hunter in the wood, kills and cooks his prey' scenario. It's more natural, I suppose. So I guess the moral thing for me doesn't boil down to "is it wrong to kill an animal for its meat", it's more of a "how and why do we kill the animal for its meat".

or some such? XD;