Death to Animals

I do my own butchering & have absolutely no problem with eating it. Come spring we hope to have a new batch of chickens running around & Deer is always welcome on the table. No cattle yet but if we ever get the fencing some meat goats might even join the feast someday.

I believe I could, and reckon I would actually enjoy it more knowing that I hunted for the meat and prepared it myself I am an avid meat-eater and could never even fathom becoming a vegetarian. However, I would never actually cause unessecary harm onto animals, such as kicking a dog for sick amusement

I have and always will, p1ke. I didn't actually witness the kill but I saw, touched (small prayer of thanks), took pics and even helped gut and butcher the 12-point buck my neighbor brought down on our property just over a year ago. He was one delicious animal...

I live in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, in north Georgia near Atlanta. There are more F-150s, 30.06s, and hunting dogs than sense around here. Yes, I've watched a deer hunted down (for food, not sport) and killed, helped to clean & dress it, and cooked it myself before eating it. My mother splits the cost of a cow that she picks out while it's still alive every year from the 4-H fair, pays 1/2 the butcher fee, and stores the meat in her deep freezer. In the fall, my husband's buddies hunt for sport & bring us the carcasses (they only want the heads for trophies, they know we'll use the rest). We dress them, eat them, and freeze what's left. Winters would be much harder otherwise. Is hunting less pursued over there than here? It just seems to be an odd question for anyone who's ever been around hunting, whether they would eat what they'd killed. Why else kill an animal, if not to eat it?

No, I would not like that. Sometimes I will go a few days without meat because of the inhumane ways that my country raises and slaughters meat. I will not buy ordinary eggs, either, as those chickens are never allowed to move around but kept in tiny cages their entire adult lives. I will only buy free range eggs. And who's to know whether they really are treated well? In the summer I buy eggs from the farmers around here. I like meat but I've cut way back on it in the past few years because of the way the animals are raised and slaughtered.

it probably would not put me off as i have a very strong stomach.I have watched documentaries about abatoirs showing the slaughter of animals and i am still a commited carnivore.

We raised and processed our own turkeys and chickens. We raised other animals for food but we had those processed by a professional butcher shop. The good side of doing this was we knew what the animals had been fed and how they were cared for. There never a question of whether the meat was suitable for consumption or not. The freezer was always full. We never went hungry. We were involved in the actual process of preparing the meat for the freezer. We learned about keeping sanitary conditions. This experience as a kid taught us all life lessons for our futures. By the way, our turkeys and chickens had very little fat under the skin. The birds I see in the grocery store have too much fat under the skin and they don't taste fresh as homegrown birds.

yeah we do it, home kills to put in the frezzer. that is what happened to my heifer i'd raised a few yrs back. (she ran away from home, and i decided to put her in the frezzer instead free beef) we normally don't do it to those who we know were pet lambs. dad and a friend do the killing then our friend, acts as the butcher and i will help pack the meat. save a lot of money having it done that way if you can get it done. got one great big beef steer there to get round to killing at some stage.

Well, sometimes. I can see a lamb or a pig or a cow killed and still eat it afterwards. But when you kill chickens, it smells with the hot water you use to pluck the feathers off, so them I don't want to eat afterwards. To me, it is just a necessity of life. If we were back in the pioneer days, if you wanted to eat, you had to kill something once in awhile or you went hungry. Vegetables don't last very long in your tummy and you pretty much have to be eating 24/7. Meat gives you the strength to actually do some work. And there is plenty of work to be done in this world. These people that are against killing animals to eat them, and try to say that vegetarianism is the only way, can't be working physically for a living. They just wouldn't have the energy to do it. Or they would have to have a break every 20 mins to eat another carrot. lol I find it extremely interesting when people try to say that humans are naturally vegetarians and not meat eaters, when science proves them wrong. We are omnivores and eat everything. Our digestive tract is designed for it. So are our teeth. If some people are appalled at killing an animal and prefer to only eat vegetables, that is fine, but similar to Religious groups that try and 'convert' everyone to their way of worshipping, I don't feel it is right of them to condemn us majority that are only doing what we were designed to do.

I kill, prepare and cook our dinner fairly regularly. It´s not so bad once you get used to it, but it took gritted teeth the first time and it´s not something I look forward to. In answer to your question though, watching an animal be slaughtered in a standard meat processing facility then eating the product is not something I´d welcome. Avoidance of such facilities, the rather barbaric practices and questionable food values, is exactly why I´d rather do it myself.

Sure, because I grew up on a farm. That's just normal life, getting ready for the year by calling the neighbors in to slaughter and dress the meat. We also shared the proceeds with the neighbors as payment for their help. Although when I was young, we had a gorgeous yearling named Samson, who my sister rode, that nobody could eat once we discovered the roast for that night was part of him. He used to lay down and put his head in my lap to have his ears scratched! Even Daddy couldn't eat the meat and we gave it away to families who didn't have a lot.

I don't usually bother myself with such questions. It brings no positive effect for me, I still have to eat meat to stay healthy, so it's not good for me to think about such things. Anyway, I've worked at meat factory to earn some extra cash one summer. I know, that meat factory is far from slaughterhouse, there are carcasses but not living animals. Still, there were some pretty gross scenes every day and awful smell in some rooms. During the time I've worked there I haven't lost my appetite for meat. But still, I don't know how would seeing slaughtering of animal result on my interest to meat.

Hi Pikey, I used to feed the ducks and say I would never eat one, and I wouldn't eat venison as I used to think they were very beautiful, but nothing yet has put me off lamb chops, even when I spot them gambolling around just before Easter sunday when they are destined for the spit. I've eaten fish after seeing it die when caught but I'd prefer not to watch my lamb chops get the chop all the same.

Hello, Pikey. I'm afraid I'd have to turn vegetarian in that case! I do like meat, but I couldn't watch it being slaughtered and then eat it. Some years ago, we went to a local farm to buy a goose for Christmas. The farmer's wife asked if we wanted to pick out the one we wanted. My husband liked the idea, but I headed for the car and left him to it. I could never have eaten the goose if I'd seen it running around. It was delicious though. My husband and his friend are keen fishermen, and recently they caught an enormous sea bass. I was happy to cook it for the 4 of us, but he had to do all the necessary first - out of my sight.

No. But I could forget it and go somewhere else to eat one of its family.

No, I could not. I have to be completely disassociated with the process and view the end product as something totally removed from the creature it was. When I first began fishing I found I was a bit squeamish when it came to cooking and eating my hubby's catch. If he would gut, scale, clean, prepare, cook and serve it I could maybe eat it but otherwise...get it away from me. What I do now is put anything I catch in a bucket then I release it when I pack up to go home.

I come from a big family and most everyone hunts. I've been out in the woods when the animals get killed and yes, have helped skin and cook the animals. As far as hunted animals go, no I don't have a problem with it. I figure if meat was good enough for a caveman to survive on, it's good enough for me.

I'm pretty squeamish. But I suspect that I could if it were a matter of eating vs. not eating. Once I almost fainted when Dearra gave Cary a really bad bloody nose, so it would take me a while to get used to.

One time someone gave us some chickens. They were raised for eating so, either my mom or my dad, can't remember which, killed them and we had to help pluck the feathers. Ever smelled wet chicken feathers? YUCK! But, once Mom fried it up and put it on the table, it was a different story. So, yeah, I guess I could.

When I was a little girl my dad brought home a little black and white piglet. I named it "Princess" and thought of her as a pet. I would sit and rub her head and talk to her all the time. Then the time came to take Princess to be slaughtered. I didn't see THAT of course, but my dad did let me know that it was Princess who had been made into sausage and bacon and other yummy meaty things. I have caught, cleaned and cooked my own fish. I've watched a deer be dressed, and ate it too. It is sad that the conditions many meat farmed animals live in and are killed in are so horrible when they dont HAVE to be horrible, but I have eaten an animal I've "known" before.