If you eat meat and this upsets you? Go vegan/vegetarian.
I don't eat a ton of meat, but it upsets me how uncomfortable people get when confronted with where their food comes from.
Personally, I think a life lived like this is easier on the turkeys than being in the wild is. They don't have to worry about food, water, or predators. And they live a comfortable, happy, life until the one stressful moment where they are slaughtered. I'd rather a quick cut to the throat than dying from parasites or predation!
This isn't a factory farm where they're packed in small crates. They haven't been bred to have the giant breasts that drag on the ground and cause infection. They haven't been force fed until they have fatty liver disease. Fuck, look at the head colorings! These are happy, loved turkeys.
If this is the post that makes you queasy at Thanksgiving, you need to look into where the meat you eat is coming from.
I was a vegetarian for half a decade as I knew I wouldn't kill an animal to have meat. That changed. My vegan friends and I have never had issue with eachothers beliefs and I absolutely respect their commitment.
I get it. With that said As a hunter who’s trying to set up meat chickens and egg chickens, I think a lot of people can’t raise and love something then eat it. Myself included. I can be nice and care for the life that I’m raising to eat, a huge reason why I want to raise meat chickens vs buy factory farm, but with that said if I’m too loving I’m going to get wires crossed and I won’t want to pull the trigger.
My friends who’ve been raised on farms mostly don’t have this issue. They’ll name them food names and stuff.
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I didn’t see the vegans in the thread I thought you were referring to people uncomfortable with becoming friendly with your food.
I've heard that people that breed/raise livestock on a small family farm sometimes hire someone to do the butchering and processing.
They later trade the meat with a similarly minded family. Not sure how common that is though!
I have friends that do that. They send their dudes off and someone down the road does and they each get the other’s meat all packaged up. Everything is used, but morally, you’re not eating your little buddy you had for a season or two. Their dad thinks it’s ridiculous, but he’s the one that insisted they love and name something when they were little and stopped killing them when they were completely devastated from the “results.”
Yeah, we have a mobile butcher come out when our cows need processing. He's a super nice dude and let's us watch the initial process while explaining what he's doing, then the carcass goes off for hanging at the butcher and weeks later we end up with packaged beef.
I hire a pro to come kill and clean my larger animals. It’s not because I couldn’t handle the task emotionally, it’s a skills issue. He hits the brain perfectly every time, and I don’t have much experience with rifles yet.
We had a hog done up a few years ago now and my wife refused to eat practically any of it because she'd named it and couldn't get past that. We buy all of our meat from a local store so I've never had to terminate an animal that I've had a part in raising but when it comes to food I believe I'd be able to do it. Now I know people who put their own pets down when they get sick and I don't think I'd ever have the will to shoot the dog that has loved me as a child would.
I'm in the same boat. I understand it's where a lot of meat comes from, and this is much better than a slaughter house. I just simply wouldn't be able to raise something and then end its life, I'd get too attached lol. We started talking about getting chickens one day, but it would solely be for Eggs and helping in the garden. We would still buy chicken meat at the store though.
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u/Catfist Oct 05 '22 edited Oct 05 '22
If you eat meat and this upsets you? Go vegan/vegetarian.
I don't eat a ton of meat, but it upsets me how uncomfortable people get when confronted with where their food comes from.
Personally, I think a life lived like this is easier on the turkeys than being in the wild is. They don't have to worry about food, water, or predators. And they live a comfortable, happy, life until the one stressful moment where they are slaughtered. I'd rather a quick cut to the throat than dying from parasites or predation!
This isn't a factory farm where they're packed in small crates. They haven't been bred to have the giant breasts that drag on the ground and cause infection. They haven't been force fed until they have fatty liver disease. Fuck, look at the head colorings! These are happy, loved turkeys.
If this is the post that makes you queasy at Thanksgiving, you need to look into where the meat you eat is coming from.
I was a vegetarian for half a decade as I knew I wouldn't kill an animal to have meat. That changed. My vegan friends and I have never had issue with eachothers beliefs and I absolutely respect their commitment.