Anyone who denies themselves the delicacy of well cooked scallops is a fool >_>

Although if you don't eat any meat for ideological purposes then I can still respect that <.<

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on November 27, 2014, 01:01:34 PM

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Although if you don't eat any meat for ideological purposes then I can still respect that <.<

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It's so funny to not want to kill things to eat them

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It's so funny to let the domesticated animals bred as food to run free with no understanding how to take care of themselves properly.

bred as food

And that is where my issue lies.

I don't want an animal to die for my dinner, there are other things I can eat which means it doesn't have to. It's as simple as that, quite why people get so arsey over another human declining to eat another creature still evades me.

Well if you don't want an animal to die for you, good luck living.
Even gathering raw materials kills animals. So even if you don't eat meat, you're still contributing to death just by being alive.

Well duh, you can't avoid things like that.
You can however make choices to lessen the impact your life has on the lives of other creatures. I don't eat meat, so the number of creatures that die to sustain my life is lowered significantly.
If you go by this average statistic [Average number consumed per American lifetime: 21,000] and whilst I don't eat like a yank that's the average number of any kind of animal consumed in one yank lifetime.
Whilst it's not quite a cut and dry number, for obvious reasons that's still a hell of a lot of lives ended for one person's food.
So my choice is to not eat meat, and thus reduce that number at least. That doesn't account for the thousands more that die as a result of human existence (building/farming/mining/deforestation) but it's a start and I'm not of the opinion that just because you already kill things it's perfectly alright to kill thousands more.

As for being "arsey" I can't understand people declining the food, if their tastebuds tell them it's nice.

Not everyone is bound by impulses, cake tastes nice and so does pie but if you eat them at every opportunity then you'll turn into a yank.

Most of what you'll eat is made for humans to eat, you might as well not let the dumb animal's "sacrifice" be in vain, or the work of the people producing the products.

This relates to the point I made up there^
And it's not really a sacrifice when your entire existence is just waiting to be killed to feed other creatures. Zebras don't sacrifice themselves to the lions, the lions kill the zebra and eat it.

On the sunject of animals being bred...
I see this every year. I don't agree with it at all, but I'm trying to point out that unless you want to spend resources taking care of the "for consumption" livestock, you might as well mercy kill them. And if you're going that far, why not just use them for what they're being made?

So stop breeding them, that's the simplest answer to that conundrum. Except the market demand for meat exists so they will continue to be bred. Reducing the number bred even by a tiny fraction is enough for me, that's by not buying meat and having a cumulative effect of not purchasing meat over the course of a lifetime.

Pheasents are bred for hunting and released into the world.
They don't know where to go, they don't know what to do.
They're dumb fucks because they've never known anything but captivity and being fed by people.
If they don't get killed by hunters, dogs, cats, foxes or cars, they starve to death because they don't know how to forage properly, because they were bred in an environment where that wasn't necessary.

And I think that is wrong.

You can't tell me cow bred for generations, purposely for human consumption, have the same rights as wild deer, or some other animal of the same size.

Considering how few rights are actually afforded to other creatures, of course I can't tell you.
It's still a living creature though, cows have a shitty existence but that doesn't make them less of a living creature than a deer that has a more carefree one.