The big goat problem that I am becoming familiar with

[Nupine]

Oh, and this is how I look at it, if goats are slaughtered, why aren't DOGS??????????

 

[NS2A]

In many countries they are.

 

[hazelton farms]

They are in Vietnam, where some people eat them. Puppy is a delicacy there and a very special meal.

We just don't here. Goats are also eaten more so in other parts of the world than here.
We eat sacred cows around here (according to some of the folks over there in India anyway).

It's all in how you look at it. If you really, REALLY want to make sure your goats don't go for meat, either don't breed any more so you don't have to worry about what to do with them, OR only give them to friends that are also vegetarians and won't eat them. But once someone buys your animal, you really don't have any more say so over it.

I hope you are able to figure what you'd like to do, as it'd be a shame to have to give up on the idea all together or get overwhelmed and not be able to support all the goats born in the future either from lack of food, time or space, etc.

Good luck.

Stacy

 

[Nupine]

I am hoping to just ''mingle'' my way through. We live in a very wilderness area so I am thinking of starting a little pack goat club to help. I just get so stressed out and overwhelmed over these things. I dearly love all my animals. I hate how there isn't like a single type of domestic animal that isn't ate by humans. Well except humans eating humans, but I have heard of that too. The people from Fiasco Farms are my superheroes. Being vegetarians and breeding 20 does a year and having people drive 4 hours for your wethers to have for pets and selling everyone of them would be the coolest thing ever.
Ashlyn

 

[Kittikity]

Quote:
What's that supposed to mean?

I meant the registered goats that you are breeding for a purpose (like your alpines).. As opposed to the others that are only pets or home milkers..

 

[Solsken Farm]

Ashlyn, I completely understand your dilemma. Follow your own heart and conscience with regards to what you decide to do. Lots of good advice was given here. Please let us know what you decide to do.

 

[tvtaber]

The interesting thing to me, and I am currently struggling with this as well, is that if we are going to consume milk/cheese/yogurt there are going to be some unneeded offspring produced in the process. Likewise, if we eat eggs there is going to be a lot of male chicks who are either raised for meat or, more commonly, thrown out. Is it better to put the little male chicks, kids, calves in the dump as waste or raise and eat them? Certainly there are not homes for all these animals as pets! At least as food their lives have a purpose. Certainly I love my female goats and chickens, but the males that had to go somewhere as byproduct of their production weighs on my mind.

The only results I can come up with are being vegan or coming to terms with the meat production side of livestock. Being ovo-lacto-vegetarian, while tasty and healthful, is not a tenable situation when it comes to animal rights.