wiillii
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as a not-vegan animal lover, i feel this too often.
source: latj - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0PgxUzMls
love animals, fluffy creatures are the best, but damn, meat is delicious too.
suicideclintonbullets
Lamb Chops grew up
jackharvest
Mongolia? Mongolia.
Lorikh
One of the most beautiful places!
TrapsAreIllegal
That whole video is just an ad for Captain Morgan.
boringpigeon
I had this happen when I was a kid. You get used to it. My cousins and their pet rabbits...not so much.
numnumcoookies
Growing up in WY, I have nurtured, loved, killed, butchered, and bbqed so many of my animal friends! and every single one was delicious
Slashenaar
Lived in the Texas hill country from 10 to 18; I can confirm that Bambi's mom is delicious.
Silverlined
You're not an animal lover, you're a pet lover.
Jehovasthickness
Personally I find the butchering process to be very interesting
BrokenAnimal
When lab-grown meat becomes cheap enough and indistinguisable enough from 'real' meat, I'll be more than happy to make the switch.
ff36
Would you cut down? It isn't all or nothing
BrokenAnimal
True, and to begin with I expect that, say, ground meat would be easier to get right, so that's probably the first to go.
attackofthequokka
MissSiesta
I took care of bootle lambs for a while, but I would have relapses "You're such a cute baby. You're going to be delicious when you grow up"
coffeemadness
Too many think that meat magically appears at the supermarket.
unclegrampy
Covered in cellophane.
morningxafter
Yep, animals are both adorable and delicious. I love them and love eating them. The duality is weird sometimes.
Waitthisparachuteisarucksack
When one becomes two, problems can arise.
Bennios
It's called cognitive dissonance. Two ideas or believes that seem to contradict each other. Smokers are a good example of this: 1/2
Bennios
They know it's killing them and their back accounts, but still buy packs. Also it's the reason I'm on imgur at 2:15 am
causality
Like women.
babysaidmaybe
Ayo!
ButterfaceTaintClown
That comment tries so hard it must be written by a heterosexual man. Nothing is gayer than a heterosexual man.
Thalarctos
As a heterosexual man, I have numerous reasons to be gay.
MrPredator
But you can't eat women...
HurrDurrImABurr
That's where you're wrong, kiddo. *fingerguns*
LadyWidebottom
We had chickens when we were kids. We enjoyed chasing them around for a few years, and then we enjoyed them as chicken soup.
Burke616
And that's why we don't name the ones we're going to eat later.
railgap
Sheep are safe from me. I hate the taste of lamb. (tho not as badly as I hate liver)
sincerelysparrow
I once ate a turkey named Pedro... I'm a vegetarian now. The two are not related- Pedro was delicious.
DoubleGeeDee
My grandpa owns a farm. When he takes cows, lambs, and such to the butcher, he puts their names on the packages of meat he gets back.
calebthebear
Gotta love LifeAccordingToJimmy, one of my favorite Youtube Channels. Check him out if you want to laugh.
YutteHermsgervordenbrotborda
Not to mention if you say you're bothered by the way meat animals are treated, people actually get angry and accuse you of being vegan
4pawz
People Eating Tasty Animals
leftbanana
I've watched lambs being butchered. Pass the mint jelly.
Sharkostomy
For many years people asked me, an animal lover, why I wasn't vegetarian. I said because there isn't a single damn pet I have that is 1/2
Sharkostomy
vegetarian. Then I fell in love with a freaking chinchilla. Dangit, Foof! You ruined my excuse!
duckie523
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FhVvNGsJV8
nefridelle
Neighbors would name their cows "Hamburger" and things like that.
onelostcat
Don't name food.
coolwaterNJ
That's where the phase "Don't play with your food" came from. It is a lot easier to eat an animal if you haven't played fetch with it first
LupusLilium
That's rule #2, rule #1 is don't ever give them a name.
ThePickle
Grew up on a farm, named our calves after Disney characters. Labeled steaks with name. Grumpy was delicious
MoonbuttTheGreat
But the betrayal makes the meat taste so much sweeter
kurtist04
Dad wouldn't let us name the animals, they were all 'Dinner'
SensualDonut
While I can't find anything that disproves this, I can't find anything that supports this idea either so i will remain skeptic.
warslinger
As a man who raises meat rabbits, names and cuddles them, you just need to be hungry
TheLannistersSendALovelyFruitBasket
Oh dear christ, is that true...
TheVindowViper
Insert the bloody hammer gif from American Gods.
ruferto
i always just heard "don't name it"
TommyWa
My families cow's are named chuck (beef) , hamburguesa, and so on.
FearMeMeow
Although that makes sense, I don't believe you.
Imsofuckingbasic
Gabriel García Márquez wrote something about that in one of his books
stinkingyeti
My sister has a bunch of cows, they're super friendly, we play with them. We still eat them.
UnpopularOpinionsGuy
That's what my parents said, too. You should have seen their faces when I proved them wrong.
slyfox001
My Angus steer played fetch, and would jump around playfully. Named him Dinner so there was no confusion, but was still hard to eat him.
slyfox001
He was delicious and we had to butcher him because he was a 1000 lb animal who tried to play like a puppy, was getting dangerous.
DontLookAtMyPenis
Says you, my dog scip was delish
DepressedHappyMuffin
You good Asian.
Wattsupdoc
Ol' Yeller didn't have rabies, there was just a drought on the farm that year
Error404TrollNotFound
Was your dog named "scip" or is "scip" supposed to be how you prepared the dog meat. Either way thats the first time ive seen the word scip
BrokenAnimal
I am a heavy meat-eater, and I personally think that people should visit a slaughterhouse to see how things are done. 1/2
BrokenAnimal
If you still feel it's okay to eat meat after that, then have at it. I was willing to accept the process, and thus I eat meat. 2/2
Sheepyhead
It's also very fascinating the whole "no part of the animal is wasted" philosophy at most slaughterhouses
JupitersWitch
Dad is a butcher. I'd walk in the freezers and see the cow carcasses. Early in life I understood and respected what cows provided for us.
WhatAWorldWhatAWorld
I think it's more important to see the slaughtering than the butchering. Preferably in the manner of the source you typically purchase from.
BrokenAnimal
I've killed and cleaned fish and poultry myself, and I've seen the slauther and partering of sheep. I also visited a slaughterhouse...
BrokenAnimal
...as part of a school project where we interviewed a butcher. I'm satisfied that we're doing what we can to minimize suffering.
JupitersWitch
I saw my dad butcher our rooster, clean dove and fish. It's sad for most but you realize how much you value the life they gave.
WhatAWorldWhatAWorld
As long as someone can be real about eating meat, a'ight. Don't be an asshole vegan or a jerk meat-eater and we're cool lol. I'm veg myself.
bellaluna
Just because you want to eat it doesn't mean you want to watch it die. They aren't mutually inclusive.
thedeg
Yes. I want to see all ticks die, but I dont want to eat them.
LearnSomething
I think you should be aware of the process though. I don't enjoy killing animals but my family raised stock and it's a part of the process.
gluttonygreedpridewrathslothlustenvy
Everyone who eats meat should participate in the killing shins cleaning of an animal for food preparation at least once. It teaches (1)
gluttonygreedpridewrathslothlustenvy
respect for the relative scarcity of food, specially protein, and the sacrifices made throughout the food chain to nourish all life (2)
LearnSomething
Have the respect to understand that the animal is going to die for you, treat them well while they are alive, make their death a quick and
LearnSomething
Relatively painless one and don't waste what you get from them.
bellaluna
100% to all the everything you just said.
GuardsmanMiku
That said, i believe you should force yourself to watch an animal be killed for food if you get the chance. 1/2
GuardsmanMiku
If you cant face the harsh truth you shouldn't eat meat. 2/2
bellaluna
Agreed, to a point. I'm not going to force my toddler to watch chickens being slaughtered before letting her eat chicken nuggets. At the -->
bellaluna
same time, does 'facing it' really mean watching it? I accept the realities of all kinds of things I don't need to physically witness.
GuardsmanMiku
oh yeh, no need to make a toddler do it but you get what i mean. Watching it is a effective way of really understanding what is going on,
ParadigmShiftingWithoutAClutch
What if I'm a vegetarian that just loves killing animals?
GuardsmanMiku
absolutezero182
You may be a psychopath and should probably see a mental health professional about that
DoorbyTheHouseShelf
Had a rabbit that grew to be very fat. When he died I just couldn't pass up the opportunity for a delicious stew. Felt so wrong but so right
eclect0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYC-waukYWo 0:18
CaptainObviouslikesthemthicc
Ryebread91
Did you poop him out in little pellets afterward?
Onlinejeremy
Felt the same way about my dad.
LadyWidebottom
He would have wanted it this way.
bb2b
Rabbits are great food for food and leather. Though, rabbit pelts are better for decoration since they fall apart rather easy.
Cataleast
But don't forget that eating nothing but rabbit is lethal.
pushyourluck
???
Cataleast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
bb2b
That's primarily game rabbit. Farm raised rabbits would probably be fine.
Cataleast
Yeah, they prolly get fatty enough.