Will you eat your own pet?

I don't eat pets even if they're categorize as a livestock. I just feel guilty and I can't bear to do that. We have chickens before and we keep them for their egg. My family would eat the eggs except for me. I don't know why but ever since I was young I had been too emotionally attached to things, people and even pets.

Hey we've had lots of situations like this! There's this hen when I was little.. I of course thought it was an animal to be treated as a pet like cat,dog,rabbit,doves since we have those at home too! I loved the hen too, with a name too.. Her maturity time came, where she is to be butchered and cooked :S I told them I will never eat, so my parents decided to give the cooked hen to our neighbors.. At least they've understood my sentiment.. The hen was like a friend to me.. :( So never ever will I eat any of my pet, even if they're livestocks!

Back when I was growing up, we used to raise Pigs, and chickens, and even rabbits. We did eat the chickens, some of the rabbits, and the pigs. It was hard with the ones who had become close pets as I was the oldest out of 5, and in my teens, but it was good eating as well. So personally it is your decision but if you want to leave these for breeding, then do it with the other ones instead.

Not really... I do not think i will ever be faced with the situation, since my pets are the normal ones, not the ones that you eat every day. I can never even imagine eating, my pets: hamsters, fishes, cats and dogs.. ever

If I see them as pets, and they grew to me, I wouldn't. If I keep them merely as livestock, I would.

if i consider it as pet, i shall not eat it. i have enjoy and spend lot of time to have fun with it, it silly to do that.

This would be a very difficult decision to make. Eating chicken is a common practice so there would be nothing wrong with eating one that had been a pet, but psychologically it would certainly seem wrong. I am sure that there will be many people who would have no problem at all with the idea, but I suspect that the majority of us would not even consider it.

I cant eat my own pet , I would be too attached . I have seen some people eat whatever they pet , I find that cruel and not human like . I would not pet a animal I plan to eat and I cannot watch a animal being slaughter and then eat it .

I never had a pet which was eventually butchered. I think, if ever, i wouldn't eat it because i took care of it. It may be an animal, but still because it was with me for many years, i already have invested some emotional aspect towards it, such as loving it like my own child.

Eww! I could never do that if I had raised them. I usually get really attached to my pets even if it were a cow. I tend not to think about where my meat comes from or else it just turns me right off of eating it.

I would have never eaten my pet since it has grown with me & definitely emotionally attached .

I love to eat chicken but you must be very fond of them as they are your pets. I can't eat or even dreaming of eating my pets.

Hello, if they are you PET, then no, i wouldn't eat them since we get close to our pets and they get close to us too, they are our friends and we love them. If they weren't treated as pets, then yes, i would eat them. Happy myLotting!

Well if i had a rooster, goat, or cow and I considered them my pets then I'd love them. I could never kill let alone eat something I love.

When I was a kid, my dad brought home a young goat which they plan to roast in a week's time. The days before they'll be roasting it, I sort of took care of the young goat, played with it even. So when they'd eventually roasted it, I couldn't eat it. The thought alone made me queasy. I felt some attachment to it even if it was only a few days. So for me, it doesn't matter whether it's a pet or livestock. If there was some attachment that I've felt, I can not eat it.

I never tried to eat my own pet or rather the chickens. I don't feel comfortable eating it. Since I was the one that closely took the time of raising them.