Don't eat silkies

[snow5164]

I like your disclaimer after each post .... this is a hot button topic.

I feel that animals raised for food can be my food , we can judge the conditions they are raised in , but if it stopped tomorrow there would be hungry people .

This save the animals , whales, pigs mentality is so common with each generation, good thing we each have to answer for our own choices and no one else's !!!

Have a great day ,
And no, I wouldn't eat a silkie , but I have eaten a Cornish hen

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

I like your disclaimer after each post .... this is a hot button topic.

I feel that animals raised for food can be my food , we can judge the conditions they are raised in , but if it stopped tomorrow there would be hungry people .

This save the animals , whales, pigs mentality is so common with each generation, good thing we each have to answer for our own choices and no one else's !!!

Have a great day ,
And no, I wouldn't eat a silkie , but I have eaten a Cornish hen

You're right, it can't just stop immediately. People need to learn more and take what they eat seriously, and not view it as just a plastic wrapped piece of meat or whatever at the supermarket.

And while I don't really want to because it isn't healthy, I admit that I have also eaten chicken from the store (not that I really have a choice, I'm still a kid - teen anyway, lol

).

Yes, it is!

You have a great day too.

 

[Jessie22]

Now that you mentioned it, it doesn't make me feel better. I didn't realize alot of things, thanks for waking me up to the way people do animals for consumption.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Most don't eat their pets. Nobody eats another's pet. As for eating my own birds, I can and will continue to do so. They are not pets nor were they raised to be one. Some say don't eat pork. Others worship cows. What others do is their prerogative. Where I have issues is on the very preposterous notion that if I don't believe in another's belief I somehow will be punished by that belief. You can imagine my bewilderment when working with a group of South Americans and one found I did not believe in God and became very distraught? told me I'd go to his hell? Beliefs and opinions are never a problem if kept unto their owners. When proposed as absolutes they can cause war. It's never the belief that's the culprit rather it's presentation of a treatise or a dictate that becomes the problem.

I could not agree more

Gary

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Now that you mentioned it, it doesn't make me feel better. I didn't realize alot of things, thanks for waking me up to the way people do animals for consumption.

Sure! I definitely don't think it is wrong to eat animals (I love meat!), but eating the chickens raised in factories for example is unhealthy, both for us and them. I know it is hard for a lot of people because they don't have many options; I don't know what should/can be done, but I hope that someday everybody has access to healthy, affordable foods.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Sure! I definitely don't think it is wrong to eat animals (I love meat!), but eating the chickens raised in factories for example is unhealthy, both for us and them. I know it is hard for a lot of people because they don't have many options; I don't know what should/can be done, but I hope that someday everybody has access to healthy, affordable foods.

There are options, vegetables......

I have not eaten meat in years, I am not wasting away. I would eat a chicken from my own backyard before I would touch a factory raised bird. Thats why I stopped eating meat, its just so gross the way its raised and processed.

Gary

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

There are options, vegetables......

I have not eaten meat in years, I am not wasting away. I would eat a chicken from my own backyard before I would touch a factory raised bird. Thats why I stopped eating meat, its just so gross the way its raised and processed.

Gary

Even a lot of the veggies from most places are filled with GMOs, pesticides and other unhealthy things. That's why I said foods; it's not limited to meat.

 

[brucifer]

I raise several varieties of chickens, but my silkies are pets, so there is never a thought on eating one. That being said, I have no qualms whatsoever with people who eat silkies. In Asia, China in particular, they are a delicacy, and they are regarded highly in Chinese traditional medicine as well.

It all comes down to perspective: Love your pets. Eat your game.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Even a lot of the veggies from most places are filled with GMOs, pesticides and other unhealthy things. That's why I said foods; it's not limited to meat.

Agreed.

The food system is overwhelmed. Too many people IMO

Gary

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Agreed.

The food system is overwhelmed. Too many people IMO

Gary

I (respectfully) disagree; there isn't too many people, it's that a lot of people are sadly ignorant of where food comes from and etc. Read some of the Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat thread. You'll see what I mean.