Why do you eat meat?

[L Gilbert]

??? Alaska is in the north and those people get seafood. I love Alaskan King crab, for instance. They have King salmon, Coho salmon, Arctic Silverbright salmon, Sockeye, halibut, char, Snow crab, scallops, Black cod, etc. A lot of those critters are also in NWT and Yukon, too.

 

[Sparrow]

I admit I eat meat because I like it, a good rare steak cannot nothing better.

 

[karrie]

??? Alaska is in the north and those people get seafood. I love Alaskan King crab, for instance. They have King salmon, Coho salmon, Arctic Silverbright salmon, Sockeye, halibut, char, Snow crab, scallops, Black cod, etc. A lot of those critters are also in NWT and Yukon, too.

I'm practically at the Alberta border, and what we get here for seafood is frozen and pricey, or fresh, pricey, and sketchy.

 

[L Gilbert]

Ah. Ever thought of online ordering? I love Finnan Haddie but I can't find it here so I get it from a fishery in Atlantic Canada. Comes in a cardboard box lined with styrofoam with frozen gel packs in it. All the pacjaging I can recycle and the tasty tidbits of smoked haddock, I eat.

 

[karrie]

Ah. Ever thought of online ordering? I love Finnan Haddie but I can't find it here so I get it from a fishery in Atlantic Canada. Comes in a cardboard box lined with styrofoam with frozen gel packs in it. All the pacjaging I can recycle and the tasty tidbits of smoked haddock, I eat.

No, I've never thought to order. I've found that most on-line ordering requires a house address for shipping, and I only have a mailbox in town. Not even a post office box but rather one of those little roadside deals. I'd look into it if hubby wans't so limited in his diet. No more seafood except for salmon. And we're not too picky about salmon, since we've never been spoiled like you folks down in the southern parts of the province *lol* The fillets of salmon Safeway has are good enough when you bake them in a good marinade.

 

[Cannuck]

Meat...

2: If all the energy and ressources put into feeding the animals that are to be eaten by us was put into producing alternative food sources we would end up with MORE food for MORE people.

We don't need more food though. All we need to do is share what's already produced and develop better ways of distributing what we produce.

 

[L Gilbert]

develop better ways of distributing what we produce.

I use a fork or chopsticks to deliver food.

 

[MikeyDB]

I eat meat ....can't afford meat but do without something once in a while to have a burger...

I understand the dilemma though...

That eggplant or that zuchini...might have been a Member of Parliament if allowed to mature....

 

[L Gilbert]

Good point. Filler is filler whether it's for the belly or for the office chair. lol

 

[Sаbine]

I cannot consume any factory-farmed meats, just physically cannot. Although it smells not bad... it tastes icky to me, antibiotic and hormone traces in meat are what I recognize first. So I switched to organic fish (mostly) and poultry (sometimes).

 

[L Gilbert]

Sounds like me. My tastebuds hate me when I eat meat from a store. Specially some of that meat that's been "smoked". I get smoked stuff from people who actually have smokers so I think some of that storebought crap is chemically smoked because it tastes like ashtrays smell to me. F'n rude.

 

[Colpy]

Free range animals is one area of 'meat ethics'. Also, shipping guidelines and slaughter issues. Some slaughterhouses ship animals long distances, in intense heat or cold with no food or water, just to run them through a slaughter house that doesn't kill them efficiently or humanely. Animals raised free range, and slaughtered in areas that don't require such duress, tend to actually taste better.

The only real "free range" animals are the truely wild...........anyone for a good deer hunt?

 

[karrie]

The only real "free range" animals are the truely wild...........anyone for a good deer hunt?

You have a point, but, it's still better to have a chicken running in a pen, rather than kept all of its life in a 1 foot square box. I'd still rather eat grouse though.

 

[talloola]

I'm just a regular city person, love meat from my local "safeway", tastes great, don't like wild game
at all, sometimes I will cook grouse for my husband, and every time he goes hunting I cheer for the
game, and when I see him drive in without anything, I breath a sigh of relief. I like cooking a salmon
if it's the same day as it was caught, otherwise, forget it, and never after it's been frozen.
I love chicken. I make large quantities of "spaghetti sauce" from the recipe my mother in law
gave me, which is from Rome, and it has pork,stew beef, and ground beef, and it's the best.
Don't like roadkill.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I eat meat because:

a) I like it.
b) it's good for me, in the proper amounts
c) it's perfectly natural. Humans are omnivores, evolution has made us that way
d) it's pretty difficult to eat a balanced diet without it. The only things that make a truly vegan diet possible are modern scientific knowledge about dietary requirements, and the agricultural and transportation systems (another product of modern science) that enable us to grow and distribute the many varieties of beans and assorted tasteless and revolting crap like tofu required to eat a balanced, meatless diet.

As for "ethical" considerations... well, you can't eat anything without killing it. I find it hard to care. I'd agree it's incumbent upon us not to make our food animals suffer unduly (and not just because it makes them taste bad), but they have no rights except what we decide to give them. Rights are entirely a human invention, and they're closely tied to responsibilities. I have no clue how we can give our food animals responsibilities commensurate with the "rights" some people think they have. You think a weasel cares about the right to life of the chicken it kills? Nature's not kind and cares nothing for rights, it cares only about reproductive success. It's a serious philosophical error to project our values onto it. So I will cheerfully contine to eat beef and pork and chicken and fish, and I will cheerfully continue to shoot ducks and geese and deer and catch and kill fish for my consumption.

I wouldn't kill them if I didn't intend to eat them. I wouldn't kill the carrots and potatoes in my garden either, if I didn't intend to eat them.

 

[Vereya]

I eat meat, because I am a predator, and predators are supposed to eat meat
Besides, it's delicious. besides, I have a lot of allergies, so I can't eat all those soy foods that replace meat. I can die if I eat one tiny piece.
I heard a joke sometime ago - vegetatrians are not the people who love animals, they are the people who hate plants.

 

[karrie]

I heard a joke sometime ago - vegetatrians are not the people who love animals, they are the people who hate plants.

I posted these lyrics earlier, but on this site is the whole song "carrot juice is murder" by The Arrogant Worms. The band is Canadian, from Alberta I believe. They have some really hilarious material. Just click the link, and on the web page you can pick how you want to hear the song.

http://www.eagle-wing.net/FunStuff/Goodies/CarrotJuice.shtml

 

[Kreskin]

I would like to know why.

How else could a burgervore survive?

 

[talloola]

How else could a burgervore survive

Where do you get the best burgers?

for the price - quality foods - - - double whopper with cheese, light on the sauce

 

[Kreskin]

How else could a burgervore survive

Where do you get the best burgers?

for the price - quality foods - - - double whopper with cheese, light on the sauce

I haven't tried it. Will give it a whirl. I have an addiction to the White Spot Double Double (not the one on the ferries).