Who feels guilty about eating meat?

I eat meat, but I do wish the animals raised for consumption were treated in a more humane manner, it's heartbreaking to see how some of them are housed, fed and treated during their lives, that, in my opinion is not necessary.

I eat less meat now than I did when younger, we have salmon at least once a week and have days when we eat strictly vegetarian dishes. We've gone for full weeks all vegetarian. Today my husband is charcoal grilling St. Louis ribs and we'll have succotash with them. Corn, baby lima beans, peppers, onions....looking forward to his good grilling.
 
InTheWoods said:
I feel guilty. But it takes a great deal of education and work to eat vegetarian or vegan, and I barely cook at all. It has long been a distant or impossible looking goal to get away from eating meat. I don't eat veal because of the cruelty, but otherwise I am not following my conscience.

I've never sewn my own clothes. I know it was normal to, in my grandparent's days, but I can't imagine going to that much trouble -- jeans and tee shirts and polo shirts and jackets are so cheap and available and there's nothing wrong with them. I buy quiet, economical clothes, and I'm happy with that. But food turned out differently in human history somehow. It takes a lot of work to maintain a typical diet, unless you live above a cafeteria or something. For vegetarian or, especially, vegan diets, it's even more difficult. There's so much else I want to be doing.

Honestly, I wish I could buy bags of Purina Human Chow to handle the utilitarian task of maintaining sound nutrition, so that at least a great many meals were taken care of easily. It's fun to go out to a restaurant (or at least it was before the pandemic), but that takes so much time if you're going to do it for every meal, and it is so dear.
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Weightwatchers and Healthy Choice frozen meals have the nutrition pretty balanced. I'll just keep cooking my own....
 
Well, I am at least 85% vegetarian type of guy. I'm big on fruit and yogurt and no salt. Only meat I ever eat is chicken and fish. I keep away from beef; don't want any heart attacks. Occasionally, I "sin" and have a hamburger but mostly that hamburger will be chicken or fish. Sorry cattle ranchers. That's just me!
 
When I was 9yrs old, my dad was office manager of the local stockyards.
I use to love walking the catwalks above the holding pens and watch all the animals.
Auction days were interesting and fun with the auctioneer jabbering so fast and funny I couldn't understand a thing he said.

Located directly adjacent to the stockyards was a Zeigler meat processing and packaging facility.
My dad took me on tour of the Zeigler plant, from the back where the animals filed in and all the way through to final product packaging.
The sights, sounds and smells made an impression on me. No part whatsoever was wasted during processing.

That night at home and after the Zeigler tour, mom had rustled up hotdogs and fixings for supper.
... I could not eat the hotdogs. I could not eat meat for a couple of weeks but eventually got over it.

If I owned domestic farm animals, I might not be able to eat them. I'd get too attached to them I think.
While I used to hunt, I no longer do. Partly because I've gained much respect for the treasure of wild animals.
But I have no problem selecting and consuming meats from a grocer or butcher shop.
 
InTheWoods said:
I feel guilty. But it takes a great deal of education and work to eat vegetarian or vegan, and I barely cook at all. It has long been a distant or impossible looking goal to get away from eating meat. I don't eat veal because of the cruelty, but otherwise I am not following my conscience.
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Same here. Plus, my problem is that meat and dairy are the only forms of protein I can digest; nuts and beans and I don't get along.
 
I was vegetarian for ten years and got sick with anemia from that, according to my doctor. He insisted I start eating meat again but I didn't want to. Eventually I did and began to eat poultry and fowl of all kinds. My diet is still largely vegetarian but I don't judge anyone for eating meat. I do eat beef very rarely. I wouldn't eat lamb - ever, veal, or venison. Just my ethics. I don't eat fish because of the contamination with heavy metals found in ocean caught fish. I'm okay with my diet now. I like it and whatever others choose for themselves is ok by me except for fast food. :oops:
 
Doesn't bother me at all to eat meat. Especially as I'm allergic to all grains (except oatmeal and barley, at least) and mildly allergic to dairy.

We do enjoy Indian vegetarian dishes. But a lot of Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurants are going vegan and using olive oil instead of the niter kibbeh, spiced butter. It does NOT taste the same and I try to avoid those places.

We often shop at an independent specialty market with its own butcher. One time I went in to buy 6 filet mignons and a Rosie's whole chicken, I told him, "Oh, give me the thickest cut filets you have and also the biggest chicken since I'm going to roast it."

He laughed and said, "Oh, I like the way you think!"
 
I eat meat & really enjoy the variety available.

Taking this from a different perspective what are we going to do with all the people employed in growing, processing & using the variety of meat produced?

Take EVERYTHING job related from growing, feeding, transporting, refrigeration, packaging to even restaurants & fast food places out of work because there isn't a need for them. The taxes lost in that change from protein derived from all types of meat wouldn't be replaced by the alternative.

Then there are the carnivorous animals in zoos. There would have to be a significant reduction of meat sources to accommodate vegetable farming.

Or we could just do as is being done now. Feel good about preserving jobs, eating delicious meals made with a variety of meat & keeping the balance of nature as it is now. AND understand that there are people that feel bad about using animals as a food supply, or choose a vegan diet. They are not wrong.
 
I actually do feel guilty at times. I love eating meat, but thankfully lamb is too expensive for my budget. When I think of piglets and how cute they are, I feel awful. Calves and grown steer are heartbreaking when you think of what they must face. But then, some of it wears off and I eat that pork roast or beefburger.

I'm a hypocrite.

Truthfully, I eat more chicken and fish for protein than anything else, but if a nice steak found it's way to my table, I'd eat it. 😞
 
And the Lord God required a burnt offering to be brought to the temple ? - strange accounts - which I must admit I have not researched - Gary O any help here. But I have often puzzled why God wished the Jews to bring a burnt offering of the slain goat or sheep I would imagine before consuming themselves??
 
davey said:
well in the OT the Lord required the Israelites to bring forth burnt offerings and it was pleasing to him/her?? - and they were placed here for us to make burnt offerings??
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I put up burnt offerings quite often on my table. Hate cooking., and besides, the meat doesn't taste the same anymore. I usually like chicken and sometimes Barramundi, grilled on a hotplate.
 
Not too long ago there was a "meat eating" thread, here's my take: for years I've reduced my red meat consumption, for health reasons. Chicken is my mainstay, for animal based protein. I hate the conditions under which animals are kept and raised for food, but we have to eat.

We all have "blood on our hands" from the choices we make, and the causes we support.
 

Who feels guilty about eating meat?​

Why?

Jus' gotta use common sense

Wife is the cook
She's been goin' 'plant based' (whatever that is)
Tastes good

We eat chicken somewhat regular
Occasionally, I'll toss a couple rib eyes on the grill

Ate dog in mainland China
Thing is, there, they don't have big chunks
Just bits here and there in the bowl for flavor (more dog to go around)

When we lived in the mountains, venison was provided
Easy stuff to can

Well.......now I'm hungry
 
davey said:
do damage to whom you or the cattle?
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Sorry, I misread the title and was thinking of feeling guilty re: my own health since red meat tends to sit in the gut for a while.

Point taken re: the cattle, but there is this thing called The Circle of Life and I'm not willing to go Vegan. I do appreciate your non-selfish stance.
 
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I don't feel guilty eating meat ... beef, venison, pork or chicken. Won't eat fish or seafood.

There is a reason these animals are here & they fulfill a need. I think of it this way, if no one wanted these animals for meat, they would cease to exist ... they would become extinct. No one would raise them if there was no use or need for them.

As far as raising your own animals for food, you don't get attached to them. They are not your pets. The cows & pigs I buy are from people I know who raise them. The deer we either hunt ourselves or we get a road-kill.
 
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