Guest Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 Just interested!! I must admit to having gone off chicken.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 I'm not sure how to answer grd I have been vegetarian for about 12 years now and have not eaten any meat or gelatine etc during that time (apart from locally caught fish) but for some strange reason I am extremely tempted to have turkey for christmas this year I would buy it locally from an organic farm and I may even go and visit it/choose it. Strangely I think I will feel better having seen that it has had a happy life than if I just walked into the supermarket and bought one. I don't know why I am so tempted - especially now that I have my hens - I am very confused. I am definately not pregnant but I have also had a craving for a bacon sandwich for about 3 weeks now and I just can't shake it from my mind - my friend thinks it's cos I'm broody and my body wants meat but I have NEVER had meat cravings in all my years as a veggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 I still eat and enjoy eating chicken and so do the rest of the family. No way could I eat my two girls though. They have names and are my pets. If I had more space I could easily raise nameless chickens for eating. I could not however dispatch them myself and would have to find someone else to do that for me. When buying a chicken in the supermarket I have never made a connection between the one in the clingfilm and my pets in the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 Exactly the same Ali. We love all food including meat & I still feel the same. However, I do feel more strongly about gaining control over the food I eat, in terms of where & how its produced, esp. animals. I'm also motivated by a desire to not let the big 4 supermarkets take over our lives, a drop in the ocean, but I keep away when I can. I wouldn't eat my egglaying pets, but could if started out as dinner with no names! Also, I fully respect the choice to be vegetarian (and love veggie food too) and somehow have a daughter who has been vegan for over a year. Its funny because she doesn't even like animals, but she thinks more carefully what she eats than most 18 yr olds (& her older brothers). She gets bored defending her decision when most challengers don't even stop and think about what rubbish they're eating. But I wish she'd eat eggs! So, each to their own & enjoy it. Short answer; I haven't gone off eating chicken! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracken Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 I tried to go veggie once. It lasted about twelve weeks........it made me ill Must admit though that if i had to kill my own meat i would'nt be able to do it Marjorie Emily Bubbles Jasper the dog 2 hamsters Lots of Koi etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leanne Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 in the last year I have reverted to a veggie diet. I was a veggie years ago and lapsed back into eating meat, but over the last 18months since getting my girls, Ive become less and less happy about eating first chicken, and then meat in general.from the week the girls arrived, i couldnt buy and roast a whole chicken as it looked too much like them, and so I was only buying pieces. I still buy meat for my kids but cant say I miss it at all, and although i do like the smell of my sons bacon sandwiches, i dont want to eat one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracken Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 If i knew i could go veggie again without it making me feel ill i would. Unfortunately i think i am one of those people who's body needs it I really did everything correctly the first time,but to no avail Marjorie x3 and going strong(i hope) Emily Bubbles Jasper the dog Koi etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I only started eating meat after getting our first two chickens I'd been veggie for 25 years (with one lapse in the middle when working on an Organic farm). I had stopped eating meat because of farming methods at the time but having the chickens made me look at things, as they are today, a bit harder. I was trying to source better meat for OH than that peddled by the supermarkets as Free Range and Organic. I found good local suppliers and decided that I would eat meat at home when I know its provenance but am still veggie. when eating out anywhere. As most of you know, we have taken this a step further and are 'growing our own' at the moment. We have 12 (nameless) chickens growing nicely and will soon be despatching the first 4.We sectioned a third of the big run for them and they live side by side with our girls. I've always felt it wrong to eat something that you aren't prepared to kill yourself - someone has to do it! - and we will be shown how to do it and then doing it ourselves Not looking forward to it but that's how it will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I was a veggie for a few years after I left school but had to revert to eating meat when the so-called "vegetarian" meals in the canteen at work were just salads every day. We do eat chicken but the boys insist on calling it "Fred" so that the girls don't hear !! We always have free range organic chicken since the girls arrived. I must admit that we don't eat as much "Fred" as we used to though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Fred! We continue to eat meat, but would never, and have never, bought it from a Supermarket. I guess I am lucky in one respect, that my Dad is a meat salesman for a local Butcher and we get our Organic freerange chicken and other meat from him. We're not massive meat eaters though I have to say, and eat 80% vegetarian. I don't eat meat from restaurants if I can help it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 We continue to eat meat - I only ate fish and chicken until I was pregnant with Rosie, then I had a blood lust and craved red meat! I now only eat it rarely, but don't mind eating chicken at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleata Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 i must admit, since having my chooks i am slowly going off chicken and have become more conscious of how amnimals lived before they become packed ready for eatings. i read somewhere that the cheap stuff that you buy from the supermarkets are usually battery farms chooks, turkey, pork etc so i have refused to buy them now. better to go to your local meat/poultry butcher and you can ask him/her where and how the little creature lived and if it was a happy life, tho short. feel much better now i only buy free range organic meat from any kind of animal. better to support your local produce and farmers anyway!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berkshire hens Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Hi All! We have only had our 2 chooks for a couple of weeks, but it has been long enough for me to take the source of our bought meat more seriously. It is worth paying the little bit extra and you get to have more personal interactions talking to the local butcher! I have joked with Laura that if our girls don't lay any eggs, they will be 'for the pot', but she says we can't as we have already given them names! Have I been watching too much Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on 'Tales from River Cottage'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I must say that I am also more concerned about where my food comes from - I call it 'food conscience'. Where time and finances allow, I will buy from independent/organic sellers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freerange Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Pity I can't have 2 votes, because DH has given up eating chicken, but hasn't yet gone totally veggie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spuddy Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 A friend of our says that you should only eat an animal if you would be prepared to kill it yourself. He works in an abbatoir though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 I am surprised no-one has stopped eating chicken since adding them to their gardens! I voted vegetarian, because I have been for 18 years, but my younger children would no longer consider eating chicken. I'm not sure how strongly the others feel but we don't have meat very often at home anyway and I never buy chicken or lamb. Vegetarian bit: I can't stand the way people coo over the beautiful lambs in the fields in March, without realising that they will be eating them. Eating sheep would maybe be acceptable, but lambs? (Babies who have had no life?) That's unthinkable Sorry everyone who doesn't agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Don't worry Ginette - i used to feel the same - I just look at it differently now. We are each entitled to our opinions I shouldn't imagine you will get shot down in flames on this forum - we leave that to the other forums, some of them seem to do it so well PS - it's taken me a year to stop feeling guilty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Thank you Lesley. I hold this as my personal opinion and I'm quite happy for others to have their own views. I'm not a vegetarianism crusader. However if I voice my opinions, they sound quite strong and make others feel uncomfortable. I usually add that if I kept my own animals, I would eat them once they had passed usefulness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Vegetarian bit: I can't stand the way people coo over the beautiful lambs in the fields in March, without realising that they will be eating them. Eating sheep would maybe be acceptable, but lambs? (Babies who have had no life?) That's unthinkable Sorry everyone who doesn't agree! The other side of it being, that if everyone was vegetarian, there wouldn't be any animals to love looking at in the fields anyway! I'm not stirring up either; I think its great that, whatever the decision, at least we are all thinking realistically about our food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 We'd still need sheep for our wool, they just wouldn't need to be farmed so intensively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 We'd still need sheep for our wool, they just wouldn't need to be farmed so intensively. I know, I'd thought of that but couldn't make the point if I added all the flaws in my original sentence. I was going to put vegan, but no one was talking about vegans. Course, I could have just kept quiet I respect anyone who stands by good principles Ginette, I just always feel obliged to put across another viewpoint, although my own feelings are usually right in the middle. Yes, that's me sitting on the fence, but it has the advantage of seeing both sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Being a Libran, I'm very comfortable with both sides! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Well balanced, Ginette, I can tell. Whereas, I walk sideways... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 A summer baby then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
