Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Imachicklvr2]

Oh, I apologize!

This just happened the other day :

*Talking, talking.* "What's your favorite animal?"
"Um, I guess chickens."
"Oooh, fried chicken?"

Didn't you just want to

I am a vegetarian, I have been asked numerous times, if I eat "chicken".

Ironically, watching a YouTube video of baby chicks being thrown alive into a grinder is what triggered my desire to stop eating meat. Even more ironically, these were probably male chicks from egg production hens, I still eat eggs....I know, I know, I am a hypocrite. At least my hens have a great life.

 

[LuvinBlueBirds]

I will preface with : I know you're joking!

This just reminds me of something. Hands down the dumbest things I've ever heard are replies to me in passing saying I'm vegetarian or vegan. Maybe half of the people say something just like "Oh that's cool!" but the other half say stuff so ignorant and out of it...

I won't criticize their diet; it's a personal choice! Yet I find it so incredibly rude when people dismiss their food so easily, and my diet so easily, you would think they don't even know that an innocent animal died for it. Come to think of it... I don't think they do

Back to my point, you can eat what you want. But please respect that an animal died for it. It's not a joke.

Ok, I have to preface this with:

One of the reasons that we have chickens is for my husband who has found out he is a diabetic. We wanted a protein source, (both the eggs and the meat from older hens and extra cockerels) that we knew the origins of. More natural and better for you. We wanted to make sure the the animals were well taken care of and not the battery horror stories. Our birds live a great life and we use them to feed the family. My children know where there food comes from.

We also buy a half of a cow from one of my friends that raises them on pasture and grain, no gross antibiotics or growth hormones. We buy organic (from the store) or local raw milk from the neighbor. Trying to be more natural all around.


My husband thinks that it is funny to tell the vegetarians that he knows well 'Well Gosh, at least the little animals have a chance to run.......The poor scared plants can't get away!"

 

[Imachicklvr2]

A conversation I had with a co-worker when it was below freezing here for weeks on end:

Me, "I am sad because so many of my eggs have been frozen and I had to throw them out."

Her, "Isn't that where green eggs come from? Like the book, Green Eggs and Ham."

Me, "Uh......"

Her, "When you cook frozen eggs they turn green."

She was dead serious.

Here is the worst part...

I went home and tried it

Just for the record, it doesn't work with my chicken eggs. lol

 

[bhwk40]

"your're not going to eat those eggs are you? you know what part of the chicken they come out of"

My reply "oh course, the same place grocery store eggs come from"

 

[barbiegirl]

A conversation I had with a co-worker when it was below freezing here for weeks on end:

Me, "I am sad because so many of my eggs have been frozen and I had to throw them out."

Her, "Isn't that where green eggs come from? Like the book, Green Eggs and Ham."

Me, "Uh......"

Her, "When you cook frozen eggs they turn green."

She was dead serious.

Here is the worst part...

I went home and tried it

Just for the record, it doesn't work with my chicken eggs. lol

lol I cook up my frozen eggs for my dogs. Mine never turned green lol never even heard of that before.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: That is not to be mean when people ask that I KNOW people whom call themselves vegitarians and eat fish and or chicken, at least occationally so they are asking because they ran across the same type of people. I have wondered why there isn't a term for people whom don't do pork and/or beef (can't say Kosher if they don't obey all the other parts of that diet). Also I know some vegitarians "relapse" into meat eating for a short time because they either want to, or because of a medical/convienence reasons.

Quote: Some people I have ran across over the years are "social vegitarians" because they want to eat meat they know the source of, and at a pot-luck or resteraunt they may not know the origin of the meat. Some of the reasons are medical/health reasons some do it because of ethical reasons.

 

[Chickadee42]

You might point out that some grocery stores and health food stores sell fertilized eggs and there are no baby chicks in those eggs, so why do they think there should there be any chicks in yours?  I think it is funny that some people think you have to have a rooster to get eggs at all, and the rest think fertilized eggs have baby chicks in them.

Have you ever met someone who believed both at the same time? That would be funny! I can just imagine the conversation.
Them"Oh, but you need a rooster to get eggs, cus' eggs are like little baby chickens. So every egg has a baby chick."
Me"So by your logic the eggs themselves are alive?"
Them*stunned silence*
Me"You said the eggs are baby chickens, so what's a chick?"
Them*more stunned silence*

 

[sepaditty1]

There are different levels within vegetatianism that have names. There is ovo-lacto vegetarian that would eat by products of animals, but not animals. Eggs, milk, cheese, honey, etc.

Lacto vegetarians will eat some by products, but not at the risk of the animal. Ie, eggs. If you eat it, then no more chick, where as you can drink milk till the cows come home (see what I did there.) and not hurt the cow.

Then of course is the vegan. This is the "Absolutely, no way" anything animal. No honey, no marshmallows, no chhese, etc.

I laugh when I hear people say, "I'm vegan but I eat eggs." OK, then you're not vegan.

I worked with a guy that called himself a vegan. Then we had a company picnic & he was eating chicken. He said, "Well, I don't pay for any. Then I'm not supporting the industry." To me that is called "Cheapskate vegetarianism."

 

[Searsmom]

There are different levels within vegetatianism that have names. There is ovo-lacto vegetarian that would eat by products of animals, but not animals. Eggs, milk, cheese, honey, etc.

Lacto vegetarians will eat some by products, but not at the risk of the animal. Ie, eggs. If you eat it, then no more chick, where as you can drink milk till the cows come home (see what I did there.) and not hurt the cow.

Then of course is the vegan. This is the "Absolutely, no way" anything animal. No honey, no marshmallows, no chhese, etc.

I laugh when I hear people say, "I'm vegan but I eat eggs." OK, then you're not vegan.

I worked with a guy that called himself a vegan. Then we had a company picnic & he was eating chicken. He said, "Well, I don't pay for any. Then I'm not supporting the industry." To me that is called "Cheapskate vegetarianism."

Marshmallows? The original marshmallow was vegetarian.

 

[bhwk40]

That is not to be mean when people ask that I KNOW people whom call themselves vegitarians and eat fish and or chicken, at least occationally so they are asking because they ran across the same type of people. I have wondered why there isn't a term for people whom don't do pork and/or beef (can't say Kosher if they don't obey all the other parts of that diet). Also I know some vegitarians "relapse" into meat eating for a short time because they either want to, or because of a medical/convienence reasons.
Some people I have ran across over the years are "social vegitarians" because they want to eat meat they know the source of, and at a pot-luck or resteraunt they may not know the origin of the meat. Some of the reasons are medical/health reasons some do it because of ethical reasons.

Couple years ago my stepdaughter had seen some videos of abuse of animals and she turned vegan, she folded after a short while because she couldnt resist our good cooking of the meats. I totally understand why she did this and we never bothered her about it. We did go in and buy about 1/4 of a cow from a local small farm, home-grown-grass-feed,etc, that was the best meat Ive ever had.