Do you find eating mutilated animals to be disgusting?

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Robert_Sock said:
Yes, the Holy Spirit! It eventually led me back to the Catholic Church. I treasure that experience. I doubt it came from Satan, but I strongly feel that the experience was beyond my doing.
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Well, the Almighty works in mysterious ways…in this case, perhaps, VERY mysterious ways. 😉
 
severus68 said:
I am a vegetarian but I am not all angry or offended at that joke just find it silly and rather childish. Not calling you childish of course.
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That is okay. I will admit I am childish 😃
Hey, it is what keeps me young. You are only as old as you think 😉
 
Robert_Sock said:
I’m talking about chicken, beef, and pork. I first had an extreme experience while preparing chicken for the first time. I found it to be very gross washing the pieces of mutilated chicken. It was a very strong experience that made me feel gross being human and I became a vegetarian. Today I eat all kinds of meats, but I still remember my first experience and I still feel gross being human and having to eat mutilated animals.
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I find preparing chicken from the store to be absolutely disgusting. It smells, it’s slimy, and it’s gross. I never was able to prepare chicken without becoming nauseous. In fact, used to prepare chicken dinners and not be able to eat them because of that. However, one day a friend and I processed some chickens, and I’ll tell you this: if your chicken was freshely dispatched (like on a farm), I have no idea what you found revolting because freshly dispatched chicken is UN-slimey and NON-smelly.

As for beef, I love meat. I have a home-raised steer in my freezer. I cannot STAND the smell of ground beef from the store. The smell is revolting and other cuts aren’t that impressive either. I don’t even buy ground meat from the store anymore unless I’m desperate and even then, unless it’s Kroger’s from their “trimmings” because that seems to be a little better. Others have to agree because it’s the first gone. You have to wait in line here where I live to get it.

I don’t like pork, but I find preparing it just as disgusting as chicken. I can eat it if I don’t spend too much time handling it.

And I don’t drink store-bought milk, unless I’m desperate, because I have my own milk cow. She’s dry now and I’m pretty unhappy about it. Plus I miss her. I can’t wait until she has her calf on Feb 22nd…or you know, as life dictates, somewhere around Feb 22 😛 I don’t drink milk from the store: it smells, it tastes spoiled and it leaves this film in the back of my throat. If I don’t have a cow or goat in milk, or if a friend doesn’t, then I don’t drink it.
 
Rence said:
I find preparing chicken from the store to be absolutely disgusting. It smells, it’s slimy, and it’s gross. I never was able to prepare chicken without becoming nauseous. In fact, used to prepare chicken dinners and not be able to eat them because of that. However, one day a friend and I processed some chickens, and I’ll tell you this: if your chicken was freshely dispatched (like on a farm), I have no idea what you found revolting because freshly dispatched chicken is UN-slimey and NON-smelly.

As for beef, I love meat. I have a home-raised steer in my freezer. I cannot STAND the smell of ground beef from the store. The smell is revolting and other cuts aren’t that impressive either. I don’t even buy ground meat from the store anymore unless I’m desperate and even then, unless it’s Kroger’s from their “trimmings” because that seems to be a little better. Others have to agree because it’s the first gone. You have to wait in line here where I live to get it.

I don’t like pork, but I find preparing it just as disgusting as chicken. I can eat it if I don’t spend too much time handling it.

And I don’t drink store-bought milk, unless I’m desperate, because I have my own milk cow. She’s dry now and I’m pretty unhappy about it. Plus I miss her. I can’t wait until she has her calf on Feb 22nd…or you know, as life dictates, somewhere around Feb 22 😛 I don’t drink milk from the store: it smells, it tastes spoiled and it leaves this film in the back of my throat. If I don’t have a cow or goat in milk, or if a friend doesn’t, then I don’t drink it.
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I have reservations about pork since that news story a couple of months back about the farmer being devoured by his own hogs. This happens from time to time. I wonder if they just destroy the hogs, or some of them wind up at Jimmy Dean’s place?

I’ve never heard of chickens or cows munching on their keepers, so I think they are safe for now. Fish, on the other hand, swim in a giant toilet/graveyard/toxic waste dump…

I’m making myself hungry for some Thanksgiving chow, now. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
 
Robert_Sock said:
I’m talking about chicken, beef, and pork. I first had an extreme experience while preparing chicken for the first time. I found it to be very gross washing the pieces of mutilated chicken. It was a very strong experience that made me feel gross being human and I became a vegetarian. Today I eat all kinds of meats, but I still remember my first experience and I still feel gross being human and having to eat mutilated animals.
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This is why I think it is valuable to spend time on farms and ranches and do some hunting (at least some) to appreciate what is involved in the acquisition and preparation of our food. Thanksgiving. What a great day for the topic.

Yes, food preparation has become automated and institutionalized but the fundamantals are the same. Modern societal demand requires interdependence. We can’t all do everything. So we specialize in our respective professions and pay other people to do the things we can’t (practically) do… hence plumbers, farmers, electricians, landscapers, ranchers, etc. etc. etc. It is the most cost effective and efficient (which is important) economic system. Of course there are some fragilities and risks as well as plenty of politics as to the best way to accomplish it.
 
I thought of this thread last night when I was watching “Everybody Loves Raymond.” It’s Thanksgiving, and Ray’s family gets so upset because Amy’s mom euthanizes a little injured bird with her bare hands. But they have no problem eating turkey.
 
I had my Thanksgiving turkey yesterday and did not hesitate in eating it! But deep down inside, I still remember my experiences in preparing that chicken.
 
I prepared our turkey this year. Mom is just getting too old. Have no problem with cleaning it up and pulling out the bagged innards. I will say I cooked it perfectly. I take the sweetmeats and fry them in gravy and give them to my dog. Nothing goes to waste. But it nice not to have to cook for 3 days!
 
I should have read before I voted. I thouhg this would be about eating roadkill which I would never do.
 
Aelred_Minor said:
I certainly would find it disgusting, and I think most people would. The eggs you buy at the supermarket are supposed to be unfertilized. Of course, sometimes mistakes are made and a fertilized egg with a partially formed chicken embryo gets mixed in. I think you’d be entitled to a refund for that carton of eggs.
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Never heard of balut? Ask Crescetious.
 
Robert_Sock said:
This was the first time I cooked chicken myself. Washing it was like washing a butchered animal. I can’t describe it accurately, but the sensation of my holding the dead chicken and knowing that I was going to cook and eat it was a religious experience that shattered much of my belief system in humankind. I saw us as meatbots for the first time.
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What was your belief system in humankind that was shattered? What did you believe that was destroyed by this experience?

Peace,
Mark
 
I can never bring myself to eat the chick because of the feathers and the organs. I’m pretty selective with my meat when I eat balut. 😛

Yolk and soup are pretty good though. Love drinking with a bit of salt. :3
 
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