[LordOpie]

so, what are the foods that, really, it's just wrong.

Like mass-produced chickens... they get almost no room to move. Calves... veal, ugh.

Well, Sunday, we're going to a charity dinner and one of the items is Foie Gras... where they shove a feeding tube down a ducks throat, over/force feed 'em until their livers get fatty. My girl is phucking evil cuz she thinks it's delicious.

Ok, she said that I'm evil cuz she's phucking evil. Makes her phucking idiot. Or something. Uhh, focus.

 

[ito]

I had Foie Gras once. Didn't know what it was, loved it, tastes amazing! Then I found out it was Foie Gras....stopped eating it. I'm not really a sensitive person, but I don't like taking joy out of another animal's misery. It is pretty horrific stuff.

Of course then again I buy my chicken at the supermarket and that stuff who knows what is in it.

But to answer your question....Butterball Turkeys. Those things are pretty nasty.

The Ito

 

[Snacks]

After reading Fast Food Nation I don't eat meat I grew up in farm country and I just can't live with the thought of what thoses animals go though for us to eat them......yes I know it's sappy

 

[kinghami3]

Anything you kill with suffocation.

 

[laura]

there is almost nothing I wouldn't try once. new food is like dope to me. I can't be without it.

i don't thiink i'd eat a bird fetus out of an egg, but it has nothing to do with cruelty towards the bird.

 

[binary visions]

Was it PETA who started the campaign where they claimed the secret ingredient in KFC was "cruelty"?

 

[MudGrrl]

Was it PETA who started the campaign where they claimed the secret ingredient in KFC was "cruelty"?

yes.



I'm a vegetarian... so, a lot of stuff is off limits to me... and I find more every week.

My newest one is cheese with animal rennet. Didn't know what it was before.

I do now:
Animal Rennet
Traditionally, the first step in making cheese was to kill a newly-born, milk-fed calf and remove its stomach to make rennet.


So, on top of not eating refried beans, the beans at Chipotle (they cook it in bacon) and any gelatin (incl. marshmallows), I now check the cheese labels (Tillamook and Cabot are the best for the non rennet cheeses).

 

[narlus]

rennet....

 

[Snacks]

I'm a vegetarian... so, a lot of stuff is off limits to me... and I find more every week.

Have you checked out potato chips? I found the BBQ Baked Layes have some kind of beef flavoring?

 

[I Are Baboon]

So, on top of not eating refried beans,

what's wrong with refried beans?

 

[laura]

Have you checked out potato chips? I found the BBQ Baked Layes have some kind of beef flavoring?

being an ex vegetarian i have made some observations on hidden meat products. Most bbq chips have some kind of animal in them. baked lays bbq have chicken fat in them. lots of bbq sauce does too.

 

[narlus]

what's wrong with refried beans?

animal lard, i am guessing.

 

[Mackie]

so, what are the foods that, really, it's just wrong.

Human babies. That's about it.

We're at the top of the food chain you know, and we should take advantage of that by eating as many creatures lower down than us as possible.
Of course being on top runs risks - there's always someone else who wants to be on top.
And let me ask you - when the bear eats a guy & his girlfriend, or when a shark chomps a surfer - do you think the animal stuggles with the morality of the act?
Nope, he just enjoys the meaty goodnes.....

 

[SkaredShtles]

I'm trying to think of some sort of food that I won't eat due to it being immoral................

Hmmmmmmm........

Nope. Can't think of any.

 

[Westy]

I'm trying to think of some sort of food that I won't eat due to it being immoral................

Hmmmmmmm........

Nope. Can't think of any.

Dahmer heart casserole?

 

[binary visions]

yes.

Well, apparently cruelty is delicious

Mmm... Lamb chops

I really can't think of any "normal" foods I'd turn down because I would consider that the animal was possibly treated badly.

I think I'd feel uncomfortable eating what I'd consider to be normal domestic pets - dogs, cats and horses - but not because I think it's cruel, just because I've typically bonded with these animals all my life and feel I would be too wrapped up in considering the source of the food (picturing my own pet's face on it) to really enjoy it.

I've spent a lot of time on farms though, where animals like sheep, pigs and chickens are treated like pets, and I have no problem with that. I can't really see my "line" being drawn past dogs, cats and horses. And people, of course, but I hope that goes without saying.

If God didn't want us to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them so delicious... and doubly so at a younger age

 

[stinkyboy]

Mmmmm veal.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Dahmer heart casserole?

I suppose if it's served with a nice Chianti..........

 

[SkaredShtles]

Mmmmm veal.

Kill that calf, slice out the meat, and now we're talking!

 

[LordOpie]

Human babies. That's about it.

We're at the top of the food chain you know, and we should take advantage of that by eating as many creatures lower down than us as possible.
Of course being on top runs risks - there's always someone else who wants to be on top.
And let me ask you - when the bear eats a guy & his girlfriend, or when a shark chomps a surfer - do you think the animal stuggles with the morality of the act?
Nope, he just enjoys the meaty goodnes.....

You're missing the point. I'm not advocating vegetarianism, I'm commenting on the additional cruelty we inflict on animals unneccessarily.

A bear never shoves a feedin tube down a human's throat to fatten 'em up first.

 

[Westy]

A political fundraising dinner sponsored by an oil company.

 

[SkaredShtles]

You're missing the point. I'm not advocating vegetarianism, I'm commenting on the additional cruelty we inflict on animals unneccessarily.

A bear never shoves a feedin tube down a human's throat to fatten 'em up first.

I guess I'm pretty ambivalent about the "additional cruelty" - I grew up on a farm and while it seemed pretty cruel to whack a chicken in the head with a baseball bat & then chop its head off with a broad axe, it's what we did to eat chicken.

A chicken that grows up in a cage for 8 months to meet the same fate is not that big a deal to me.

Actually - their method of killing is probably more humane than mine was.

 

[narlus]

A bear never shoves a feedin tube down a human's throat to fatten 'em up first.

if they knew how delicious the liver would end up tasting, they would.

 

[SkaredShtles]

if they knew how delicious the liver would end up tasting, they would.

 

[OGRipper]

Most people I know draw fairly arbitrary lines on what they will and will not eat, but it's not always about morality. I like to be conscious of what I'm eating and where it comes from but my reality is that the modern, convenient world makes it easy - maybe too easy - to eat in a way many think is irresponsible to the animals, the planet, etc.

I do think it's strange that some people will eat some parts of an animal but not other parts (eat chicken but not chicken liver, or a pork chop but not pig's feet, etc.) To me, if we're using animals for food we should use the whole thing as much as possible. It's not like the chicken is going to appreciate you not eating it's liver after you ate it's leg. :wonky2:

 

[MudGrrl]

I do think it's strange that some people will eat some parts of an animal but not other parts

I find it kinda strange that some people will eat beef but won't eat dog.... but that's me being a vegetarian and not touchin' any of it.

 

[MudGrrl]

A political fundraising dinner sponsored by an oil company.

and sitting next to Jessica Simpson?

 

[SkaredShtles]

I find it kinda strange that some people will eat beef but won't eat dog.... but that's me being a vegetarian and not touchin' any of it.

I'd eat 'em.

 

[TN]

Morals just get in the way of my hedonistic lifestyle.