I stand by my opinion though, that if you are going to eat meat, you should eat any meat, not pick and choose which you will eat because some are 'cute'. I also think that if you are going to eat meat, you should be able to kill an animal with the knowledge that it will be eaten.
But what if you don't like all meat!? Different animals taste very different. There is a world of difference between a salmon fillet and a topside of beef!
I agree that if you are going to eat meat, you should be able to hunt and kill for yourself. which is why I have no problem eating fish because I have regularly gone mackerel fishing, killed, gutted and barbequed it straight after. However, I could not kill a cow (as much as I would love to as cows are evil) and therefore, I will not eat it. There is a big difference between a humble mackerel and an intelligent mammal. I once ate a chicken (my aunt owned a poultry farm) that I had killed and de-feathered myself. It had enjoyed a wonderful free range and long life and it had a name. I felt that I needed to know if I could actually do such a thing and therefore not lead a hypocrypital life. Back to the fish thing...I am happy to eat fish if it has been ethically caught and is organic and natural. Otherwise I won't touch it. It's the same for even milk and cheese. It has to be organic and ethically farmed with no antibiotics and hormones being pumped into the cows!
So I guess I am unsure as to what that makes me. I'm hardly a vegetarian, clearly! But I do feel very strongly about the way animal husbandry is carried out in the majority of farms. And if I was hungry, I would catch, skin and devour a cute ickle bunny wunny with nary a second thought.
I eat what I know I could handle killing if I had to...but nothing more than that.
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Date: 2008-04-08 02:20 pm (UTC)But what if you don't like all meat!? Different animals taste very different. There is a world of difference between a salmon fillet and a topside of beef!
I agree that if you are going to eat meat, you should be able to hunt and kill for yourself. which is why I have no problem eating fish because I have regularly gone mackerel fishing, killed, gutted and barbequed it straight after.
However, I could not kill a cow (as much as I would love to as cows are evil) and therefore, I will not eat it.
There is a big difference between a humble mackerel and an intelligent mammal.
I once ate a chicken (my aunt owned a poultry farm) that I had killed and de-feathered myself. It had enjoyed a wonderful free range and long life and it had a name. I felt that I needed to know if I could actually do such a thing and therefore not lead a hypocrypital life.
Back to the fish thing...I am happy to eat fish if it has been ethically caught and is organic and natural. Otherwise I won't touch it.
It's the same for even milk and cheese. It has to be organic and ethically farmed with no antibiotics and hormones being pumped into the cows!
So I guess I am unsure as to what that makes me.
I'm hardly a vegetarian, clearly! But I do feel very strongly about the way animal husbandry is carried out in the majority of farms.
And if I was hungry, I would catch, skin and devour a cute ickle bunny wunny with nary a second thought.
I eat what I know I could handle killing if I had to...but nothing more than that.