The big chicken turn off

[Beekissed]

Some people are able to separate the animals in their minds and some can't. She can't help it that she has a weak mind, can she?

If she could separate the image of furry animals from the image of a juicy, red steak, she could maybe get her mind around it. I say, her loss, our gain!

 

[Rosalind]

I have a friend like this. She can't bear to eat an animal that she has personally met. If I give her eggs, she lets her son cook them and eat them, but she won't eat them herself. Her husband hunts and fishes, and ends up giving me a bunch of venison in exchange for eggs. She'll eat anything that was once wrapped in plastic though, somehow the miracle of engineering turns a live cuddly critter into food for her, by virtue of being wrapped in Saran Wrap.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

If I named it, I can't it eat it.
If it doesn't have a name,
it is fair game!

 

[mangled]

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C'mon!! Fairies aren't real??

Seriously, though, I have this same trouble with people in my family. My aunt actually almost vomited when she found out the birthday cake I made for my Gramma's 80th birthday party had fertilized eggs in it.

Someone had commented on how yellow the white cake was and I told them it was the farm raised eggs. She was horrified I didn't use store bought, so I goaded her on by saying, Not only are they fresh from my chickens' bums, they were fertilized as well!! She actually dry heaved.

My sister will not eat my eggs, either. They're not white. She will not eat a freshly butchered rooster cooked on the rotisserie, no matter how good everyone says it is.

I figure, it's their loss. More for me!!
Em

 

[hooligan]

I think this might be along the same lines as one of the reasons that I am a veggie. If I can not kill an animal to eat it I shouldn't eat it at all.
To this person the super market meat is faceless so that makes it easy for them to make the choice of eating it. Once they have seen or met the animal they can not bear to have it on their plate.
When I was very young, before I started school I made the connection that the rabbit, frog and squirrell that was cooked in my grandmothers kitchen could have been the same one I played with or watched in the trees, pond etc I could not eat wild game for ANYTHING and had several spankings over it, but it never changed my mind.

 

[piecemaker]

My 28 yo DD will not eat my eggs after she witnessed a hen getting out of the nesting box. She wanted to know just were does that egg come out. Tried to explain even the store eggs come from the same place she politely told me "No they come out of a green carton at the store" She brings her own eggs to my house she even cooks her breakfast cuz I may try to trick her into eating one of my eggs. She will eat deer meat though
I give up

 

[justusnak]

I just dont get how some people can be so dissconnected with thier food! I mean...we ALL know...steaks come from a cow....chops from a pig....eggs from a chickens bum...ok, so deal with it. I raise meat birds....freezer pigs....and thanksgiving turkeys. My pigs have names.....Sausage and bacon.

Im not a mean old calous woman...I just like to know what went into the meat im eating. No chemicals...no antibiotics....just plain old feed and mother nature. If I have had to medicate a chicken, its banded, and never eaten. Production/pet...for life. Maybe show your friend..or family members web pages on cattle lots...or chicken farms...then see if they change thier minds!

 

[ams3651]

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guilty here too

 

[EweSheep]

I love all my farm raise meats and fresh eggs and will continue to do so. My father and I are alot alike. However my mother and sis rather buy meats and eggs from the store, since they are santized (sp) and zapped to get rid of germs. They didnt care if the meats were full of hormones and all the poison going on in the supermarkets.

When my dad cook his eggs, he would sneak in one of my eggs to my mother for breakfast and she said it was GOOD!

I love deer meat and sausage. Had squirrel once, it was good even they told me it was chicken so I ate it and then they told me. Dont matter, it was GOOD!

Now KingsCall, pass the deer meat spaghetti my way!

 

[al6517]

I think too many people have lost touch with how are food is produced, I.E. from where and how they are raised, and packaged for sale to us. I think it is just ok to name some animals destine for the table, but this must be done very carefully with the end result as a constant reminder. so that when the time nears for the deed to be done, we are respectful, thankful, to the animals and proud of what we made. I think it is more important to that we raise our food in a safe, clean, comfortable enviroment for the animal. As far as how our homegrown food taste vs store bought, more and more people are spending less time in the kitchen in front of a stove, and opt for the rubber tastless junk from the MICOWAVE, because of the lazy excuss of ( I am to busy ). If you want to raise your own food for the flavor please take the time to realize what makes the flavor, which are raising, processing, storeing and cooking. So with that said let us please take the time to realize what we want and how to get there, and stop letting emoitions rule this process.

AL