Following on from horse meat post, Could you kill an animal to eat?

Nope... one of the reasons why I'm veggie. I nearly fainted with horror the other day when OH nearly ran over a squirrel!
Did think they were a bunch of wusses on hells kitchen though... I could possibly pluck/prepare dead things if someone showed me how?
And I fully support people who do kill things in the wild to eat them.... just couldn't do it myself.
 
Might be better if it were fowl
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Foul fowl are not so good...
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This is a really good post. i think that if you want to eat meat, you should know exactly what it went through to get to your plate. i work in food safety and most of the people in my department are veggies. I respect that because they are veggies after seeing what goes on in abbitoirs. we culture a lot of samples from abbatoirs and you would be amazed at what floating around in the air in them. we deal with large factories killing into the thousands of animals per day. Its not nice. i eat meat but only from sources where I know where it has been rared and slaughtered. it drives me mad when people are tucking into the roast beef dinner but are not prepared to even consider where it came from. If you eat it, you should be prepared to face the reality what what brought it from the feld to your plate!
 
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I don't think I could unless I was literally starving to death. That is one of the reasons why I am vegetarian - my personal opinion is that you shouldn't eat it unless you are prepared to cope with the realities of killing it.

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Sorry for being lazy and pinching this LOL

It sums up my answer although I differ in that I do eat fishes and prawn type critters
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I'm not sure about me physically killing a larger animal although i have watched it on tv and haven't found it overly disturbing. I have however eaten fish that i've caught and birds that my boyfriend has shot and brought home (mainly pigieon, pheasant and partridge). My sister has also kept pigs and ducks which i have eaten, however they were sent to slaughter so didn't see the killing. I've also kept pet rabbits but have no problem eating rabbit meat.
 
Have killed chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese and rabbits to eat before.

The squeamish stuff doesnt bother me.

Its cruelty in transport and slaughter that i abhor
 
I have killed and eaten a chicken before on aircrew survival exercises. The veggies had to kill and eat a potatoe.
 
My daughter is 18, hunts, and when she was younger she used to beat on pheasant shoots, her answer to the many who asked why, as a veggie, she could do this, was that pheasants had a far better life than battery hens! We live in a very rural area where both my daughter and I are, er, "unusual"!! I eat fish, poultry and game, but nothing else that has ever lived! Like an earlier "poster", my ex-husband was an Environmental Health Officer, and as a student, was involved with "Operation Meathook" which involved condemned meat getting into the food chain. I love animals so much that I had a call a neighbour (who used to be a butcher at the locally famous Braughing Sausage shop!) to kill a HORNET (yes!) on my doorstep one morning! I don't care if rare breeds become extinct if no-one eats meat.....I'd rather they didn't exist than kill them! What I can't get my head around are people (and I know many in this situation) who raise gorgeous, tiny lambs, they're so tame that they follow you everywhere, the kids give them names.....and they end up in the freezer! How can anyone do this????????

We have chickens, purely for their eggs, and I could not imagine eating any of them!

Sorry, but I truly love animals and cannot face eating them! If more people (and I'm talking about townies here) had to kill their own anilmals to eat meat, I think there would be far more veggies! So many people view meat as something they buy in in supermarket on a polystyrene tray, covered in clingfilm - but that was a a real animal a few days ago! Could they kill it themselves? I doubt it? As I said, my ex- was an Environmental Health Officer - animals suffer in slaughterhouses - I've heard his stories (and they've troubled me) - do people actually believe animals in slaughterhouses die PEACEFULLY and humanely ?????????? Forget it!
 
considering i reared chickens as table birds yes!! much better than supermarket meat!
i have also done geese before, but such a sod to pluck don't think i'd bother again! OH also shoots rabbits which if good enough i will make a rabbit stew.
 
yep.....
having worked in a slaughter house from he age of 15 i'm quite adept at killing a sheep without the need to stun it first...it's not quite ethical for" christians" but if you're a muslim/hebrew then just carry on!!!!


as for a bullock...the best way is to shoot it with a "bullet".....

chickens/ducks/pidgeons/geese ar quite easy to dispatch if you are strong in your hands.....
 
Yes I could and I have but only fish up to yet.
Have no problem at all in killing and eating fresh sea fish that are both edible, worth eating ( ie flesh to bones ratio) and are not undersized.
I don't have a conscience when fishing.
I clean up after myself ie don't leave stray tackle unless it has got caught up in rocks etc but if the tide goes out or the next day for instance I will try my best to retrieve it.
Packaging for any bait which is bought is always thrown away in a bin.
I prefer to dig for bait or search rock pools tbh as it's more fun and more rewarding to catch fish from something you have actually worked hard and sweated to get.
You should have seen some prawns we found on Shell Island this August I wish I had got a pan with me there and then. Sadly they got taken off the hook by the basst*rds lol
I much prefer to eat fish caught in this way than by trawlers which imo cause havoc on the seabed and damage the ocean's ecology.
That said I do eat fish retrieved by those methods but only because I like fish and live inland but when we do eventually move to near the coast any fish we eat will be caught by rod and line! So it won't be that many then, sniggers lol
I have been ferreting with a friend twice and seen rabbits killed. He could break their necks but I don't think I could do that it would have to be a blow to the back of the neck/head to kill it. I cannot master the twist at all. In fact a few years ago I had to dispatch two woodpigeon chicks that one of my cats had brought home. They would have died as they had pierced bellies. I tried to do the neck breaking and it didn't work
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their necks were so floppy that the skin and muscle tore and it did not kill them. I was mortified and it did leave me in tears because all I wanted to do was to put them out of their misery and prevent a lingering death. In the end I had to get the other half to dispatch them with a brick.
If we could have got to a vets I would have done but it was out of hours and no disrepect to the birds but there is no way I could afford a call out fee at the vets just for two woodpigeon chicks.
So after then I have had no confidence in myself to try and break a neck. So for me personally killing a smaller animal to eat would have to be a blow to the head or shoot it.
Only trouble is I don't like the sensation of a gun.
I am not squeamish though and have no problems gutting, plucking and carving up. I have not had rabbit for a few years now but I don't leave them to hang. They were paunched etc as soon as I got them home, 11 in one go at one time. Kitchen stunk lol.
I would also like to have a smallholding myself tbh to test myself to see if I would be able to send animals to slaughter.
I think for me personally although free range have a better life if you keep them yourself and see their faces everyday I would find that hard.
Killing wild animals is easier in my opinion unless you have tracked them for a long while because a rabbit is just a rabbit, a fish is a fish. But in a small holding if you only have a few animals you may see their characters develop and can distinguish between individuals ( unless very similar) and look into their eyes.
That for me would be the hardest part to look an animal in the eye that I have raised and think 'I am going to eat you'.
It is a thought that would play upon my mind and would weigh heavily on my conscience but I think if I ever was to do it the once and could get over the feelings I would be able to do it again. But if I fell to pieces over it then that would be it and I would most probably even become vegetarian again.
Sorry for the long post.......
Caroline
 
We rear our own pigs, table chickens and pigs, yum, if i had to kill them myself i would. We sold some young table chickens to a bloke, very well spoken, posh car etc who said he reared and killed his own pigs, shot them himself. What a way to go, no stress of the slaughter house, here comes dad with the food, yum, bang!
 
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