My thoughts on meat.

[itsasmallfarm]

for me its simple, i hate the factory farming system the way they treat animals is disgusting, its inhumane and just the quality of food is bad.

now am no vegan by any chance, i much prefer to hunt for my food, plan on going white tail deer hunting this fall. hoping to get one for the freezer (i don't hunt for horns mainly cause you can't eat em), but i also trap and fish as well for food (heard muskrat and beaver are good eating) and well i like my pike fillets smoked (and i just like catching pike).

but wild meat is just so much better then factory farmed meat, its all natural free range meat, nature kills the sick and weak.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

If it were not for alien/extraterrestrial intervention and high meat protein diets, man would not be at the top of the food chain. Of course it helped that the aliens directed an asteroid here to eliminate the previous top of the food chain... dinosaurs. Had they survived, we wouldn't be here... They would have eaten us. They would not have given any consideration at all to our feelings, or anything else. We would have been food. In fact, in some places we still ARE food.

You must first remember that we are an animal. We eat flesh/meat/protein. There are other animals out there that would challenge us at the top. They also eat flesh/meat/protein. They would and DO eat US given the opportunity. There are many man eating animals out there and I support your desire to keep them alive along with those who don't eat us, when given the chance. But don't kid yourself that we are the only meat eaters or that we shouldn't simply because we can "think" and they can't.

In a properly balanced ecosystem, there needs to be meat eaters. Sorry, it's simply a fact. In the areas where top level predators have been removed there are numerous problems created by an over abundance of "herbivores" that said meat eaters used to control populations of. We have simply replaced the natural herbivores with our own rendition; cattle, swine, poultry.

I am an omnivore that leans heavily toward the carnivore side. I do NOT like to see ANY animal mistreated. However, that being said, I have absolutely NO problem raising an animal for the purpose of consumption, giving it a full, healthy, protected life. I believe in a humane, fast kill with minimal stress or pain caused to the animal.

I have no problem at all with those who make the personal decision to eat only plants. I have a serious problem with those who choose to force there way of life on another. the meat eater or the plant eater. Enjoy your salad and I'll enjoy a nice medium rare grilled rib eye steak.

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Except I don't agree about the Alien, asteroid thing killing dinosaurs.

 

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[Embden Geese]

I decided to let my 11 year old daughter write her thoughts down she has recently been doing a goose taming project and I keep waking up to seeing my two Embdens in the house sharing a banana with her, she even brings massage bunches of grass to the cows and calves at the end if the road since they are not in grass. She is only happy if there is an animal there.

 

[JaeG]

This is a good video for kids about how plants communicate. I found it by chance when looking for videos about fungi for my kids (we have some crazy fungi growing in our backyard at the moment and our 10 1/2 year old is fascinated). It's really interesting and I learned a lot of new things. Our whole planet is a wonder!

 

[drumstick diva]

Very interesting JaeG