People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

[daver676]

My gf is currently on the Atkins diet, and has been for the last month. In those four weeks, she has lost 20 pounds. It's a fairly easy diet to get into. She eats meat and salad, not potato or rice, flour, sugar, pasta, etc..... I've been thinking about starting this diet myself, but due to my kidney failure, and subsequent transplant, I'm a little leary about ingesting extra protein. I'll be talking to my docs first.....

Dave

[TheRedDragon]

Sheesh, everytime I drive by a herd of cows I always lick my lips "Mmmmmm....Foooooood"

[jay76]

While I don't live on one any more, I grew up on a farm. I was raised to eat meat - specifically, meat that grew up in the barnyard. We had chickens and ate them and their eggs too. Many was the time we'd haul out steaks or ground beef and comment on how tasty George was. Had my parents been vegetarian I likely would be too (or at least I would have been for a while... I have a feeling I'd have gone carnivorous eventually anyway lol).

There's a question for vegans and vegetarians: would you raise your children in your way of life?

Interesting how taking kids through a slaughterhouse as part of their education came up. While I was in public school we had a tour of one of the local butchers shops. I seem to recall that they used either a bolt or blanks to kill the cow... they didn't show us the actual kill, but we did witness the hanging and cleaning. It was certainly educational, but nobody went home saying "ewww! I'm never eating meat again!"

It's good to see that this thread hasn't degenerated into a free for all. Although the mods must be getting bored by now...

[marylyn101]

I raise meat for myself on my farm and we give them as much happiness and love. they go to a humane butcher (seen his work)