I can't eat chikcen anymore!!!

[TheIvoryKitty]

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I don't think its pathetic to care about an animal, or to become attached to a pet! Pathetic is far to strong a word - people just assign a lot of emotional value to their pets. That's fine. I just think that for some it gets so strong that it takes over natural instincts. We are omnivores - we eat meat. If you care about the treatment of the animals you eat then see to it that they are treated well.

But, there's nothing wrong with not wanting to eat your own chickens. That's a personal choice, and it's not pathetic.

 

[chickmashnoon]

I think it just makes my thankful prayer before food even more thankful, because not only am I happy that God is providing for me but I'm happy that this little feathered friend lived and died for me. Maybe it's twisted but I almost find it magical to have known the little life that is going to sustain me for the day. It really just supports the feeling that we never totally disappear, our energy just changes forms.

Sorry for the new agey feel. It makes me think that if we are what we eat, I am my chickens! They are part of me now, and I'd rather have that than them being killed traumatically by a coyote.

 

[al6517]

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I don't think its pathetic to care about an animal, or to become attached to a pet! Pathetic is far to strong a word - people just assign a lot of emotional value to their pets. That's fine. I just think that for some it gets so strong that it takes over natural instincts. We are omnivores - we eat meat. If you care about the treatment of the animals you eat then see to it that they are treated well.

But, there's nothing wrong with not wanting to eat your own chickens. That's a personal choice, and it's not pathetic.

I do understand that.... heck I wouldn't eat my own pet house dog, and the non eating of pet's is also fine it's just the super way over the top analogy's of the chicken industry and people can still care for animals heck we aren't barbarinans. My point being the overly emotional banter of how deeply people want you to think they feel like and will just have a total mental breakdown if something were to happen to a few of their birds. This sort of behavior is what I mean, it's like the woman who cried when she saw a chick hatch............... I mean really !!!!! mental emotional weakness can interfer with proper poultry care. I just think there are realistic limits to this and what is a healthy level of empathy and what is borderline disorder.

 

[TheIvoryKitty]

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Agreed.

This is a problem in a lot of areas of society today!

 

[al6517]

Yes society today has animal care issues that will create even bigger issues as the next decade nears, It seems to me that the folks who are more to the right or even center to the debate are much more emotionaly stable and have better animal husbandry skills.

 

[crazybarnlady]

I like knowing that I raised my animals healthy and happy, gave them a good life and a quick humane death.
Growing up on a farm, my dad always did the "dirty deed" and as an adult I thought I should be able to do the killing so the stress would be low for the roos, but it just takes too much out of me! I have no problem with the processing once they're dead, but I'm just hardwired not to hurt living critters, and the manual override takes a lot out of me.

So I found a great local proccessor who does them immediately with low stress while I wait- they don't have to deal with transport, caging and catching, and no shackles like a commercial abbatoir. I'm still giving them a quick humane death but I don't have to have PTSD for the rest of the day!

 

[gryeyes]

I do eat chicken. Just not my own. I would love to eat home-raised chicken, but do become attached to the little feathered critters, so I'm giving some "packing peanuts" (RIR cockerels) received with a pair of geese to a friend for eating purposes. The friend gets to handle the processing (eventually, as they haven't done that yet, nor have the cockerels gone home with them yet) or arranging for same, and enjoy the food. But I get to eat dinner over there fairly regularly, so I will finally taste the difference.

I also eat KFC, and I've purchased so-called "free range" chicken at the market for cooking. I do NOT order eggs at restaurants or eat store bought eggs. Ick.

Discovering that chickens have individual personalities was a big shock for me. I did not expect that at all. Buffy, Molly, Rebecca, and all the ladies in my flock will have a home forever, even after they stop laying eggs. So will the various roosters I have named and like a whole lot.

 

[sumi]

I raise my own pigs for slaughter and used to have sheep as well. I have no problem eating my own pork, at least I know where they came from and how they died.
As for my chickens, I love my birds and it would be like eating your dog/cat. If I have an extra roo I sell him. Sometimes he goes to a good home, sometimes he goes to the pot. But not my pot!
And factory farmed animals... I have a simple philosophy: I am what I eat and I don't swallow misery.

 

[debilorrah]

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If this is true I need to eat a skinny person.

 

[momoeight]

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If this is true I need to eat a skinny person.

ME TOO!!!