do you eat chicken? just curious....

[holliewould]

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You being a vegan(you don't even eat the eggs of ya gals), curious because I have been accused of being a vegan, which i am NOT....would you eat a home grown chicken? Or any animal product that you were sure was raised and lived as humanely as possible? Curious, because i don't consider myself being a vegan, however I don't eat any animal product i don't raise myself. What would I be? Do I classify as something besides that? ......some sort of personal movement of the sort? I haven't eaten anything animal in months and almost a year, so what would I be? What is my personal movement called? I would like meat, I just don't have access to hunting, or anything else accept eggs for that matter. I consume no milk, no cheeses, no nothing unless I can possibly raise it myself. What am I? I am hungry is what LOL. Not vegan though. But I certainly understand the concept. I really do. 100% A few of my college friends took the vegan route because of factory farming issues. Kudos to you! I appreciate that kind of dedication.

 

[rooster-red]

I just ate some fried chicken for dinner.

 

[bluey]

I want KFC!

 

[AK-Bird-brain]

We eat so much chicken I had to start raising turkeys and ducks for some variety.

BTW how does the Colonel make it so yummy and extra crispy?

 

[chickenfanatic]

raise em,love them, and eat them its the circle of life and mmmm how tasty it is i think anyways but we have our meat birds and our pet birds keep them seperate in ur mind and heart

 

[LittleChickenRacingTeam]

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[Mahonri]

I love my chickens. They're delicious.

 

[wischickenlover]

No, I will not touch anything chicken anymore. My DH thinks I am nuts, as do my sons.......but, my daughter is clearly on my side. Each time I would eat a bite of chicken, I would think of my girls, and I couldn't finish my meal. Also, after watching "(link to PETA site removed by staff)", the thought of what those poor chickens go through in their short lives at the commercial farms makes me physically sick. Every animal on my small "farm" has a name and is loved. I could never eat any one of them. (although I do have a pot belly pig, but eating pork doesn't bother me....go figure!).

 

[dancingbear]

Yes, absolutely, but I prefer to eat the ones we raise, so that I know it was raised humanely, (we free-range, real free-range, where they run around the fields and eat greens and bugs and all things birds are meant to eat) Killed humanely, and handled properly.

I haven't completely quit supermarket meat, but we get less and less of it all the time. Eventually all our meat will be home raised or wild.

Not knowing a bird personally doesn't make me feel any better about how CAFO meat is raised and butchered. Plus it's getting worse all the time, health wise, to eat commercially raised food, unless it's an organic operation and you know they handle things properly. Sometimes even places who advertise organic aren't much different from standard CAFO's.

 

[Akane]

What is so different from the chickens in factory farms and the ones in your backyard.

I'd eat my own chickens before store chickens if I could but I don't want to raise birds large enough to be meat birds and I don't eat much chicken anyway. The difference to me is the ones raised on factory farms are kept in horrible conditions. They have a miserable life and a miserable end. It's no way for an animal to live. Where the ones from someone's backyard run around in at least an acceptable sized pen, eat a variety of things, are handled carefully instead of being thrown around to get broken and banged up, and live as happy of life as they can before being killed as humanely as possible. I have absolutely no issue killing something for food. Other animals do it and humans really didn't evolve to be vegans. We can't digest most plant matter and can't even obtain some vitamins like B12 from plant only sources. Personally I just see humans as another animal. No matter how much we complicate things we still aren't really any different. Animals eat each other to live. So long as something lives a good life and dies as good of death as possible (I know there's no real good way to die) I don't have a problem with it.

However I don't eat much chicken or other meat just cause I don't like it. Chicken meat always seems so greasy. The dog gets half or more of my chicken. When I was growing up I used to shove all my steak in my mouth at once and then spit it out in my napkin when no one was looking. I also don't use much milk cause store bought cow milk is just plain disgusting. I'm thinking about getting my own dairy goats next fall. Mostly I eat fish and eggs. Which I would never eat only fish out of moral reasons. Fish are treated far worse and have a far worse death than most livestock used for food but it's the only meat I really like and I have b vitamin and iron deficiencies if I don't eat enough meat. Too bad I can't build a pond and stock my own fish.​