Poll: Your opinion on meat products

[Lucem712]

(Once synthetic meat proves to be a worthy replacement, even vegetarians/vegans* can enjoy it!)

[sub]Maybe not vegans, since I think I read that synthetic meat (Currently) uses cells to replicate the results, so it'd kind of be an animal by-product [/sub]

Can't wait to see the PETA ads for that one

I can just see it now, some famous actress, completely nude!

Om nom nom. You guys have fun eating your front yards, I'd rather die at 55 eating stuff that tastes good than live to 75 eating shit that has no flavor at all.

^This. I mean, if you told me I could live to 125 if I stopped eating meat/animal products right now and started eating uh, cactus juice or somethin', I wouldn't cos that'd be no fun at all (Besides, I'd outlive all my omnivore pals.)

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Om nom nom. You guys have fun eating your front yards, I'd rather die at 55 eating stuff that tastes good than live to 75 eating shit that has no flavor at all.

that was my exact excuse for years; flavor desensitization as a result of consuming excessive meat, animal products, processed oil and refined sugar is equatable with other chemical dependencies. Sugar and grease are probably my favorite drugs, but when I started drastically cutting them out of my diet I began to actually taste things. kind of like when I broke my coke habit and realized that things other than coke were were actually quite enjoyable, like sunsets and birdsong.

 

[SirDeadly]

I have made a Bacon Explosion and it is surely what a god would eat.

Bacon wrapped bacon and Italian sausage with bacon salt and BBQ sauce done on the BBQ.

Spoiler

*Edit: You can feel the massive calories through your teeth.

That looks so good!

I love meat, especially chicken and pork. Roast pork with fat dripping off the meat. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.

 

[Tiger Sora]

*Head pops up behind a fence* What's that neighbor, havin' BBQ are ya?

I love it. And in nearly any way you can cook it.

 

[loc978]

As an omnivore who actually moderates his meat intake for nutritional reasons... I think the way most of the US handles farming is disgusting, but that's no reason not to eat the stuff (just stop eating so damn much of it! Also, cut down on the bread, the old FDA food groups pyramid is wrong!).

Also, I think kids should have to kill their own food at least once. It may put 'em off meat for a few days, or even for a lifetime... more likely it'll just give 'em a better understanding of what all food actually is: the once-living tissue of other organisms.
PS- I love venison. Farm-raised animals just don't taste as good to me.

 

[Zen Toombs]

While I used to be a rabid meat-eater, now I don't eat beef or pork. I haven't for... wow, near three years now, and at this point even looking/smelling beef or pork makes me feel a mite queasy.

 

[derelict]

If God didn't want us to eat animals, why'd he make them so damn delicious?

Not only that, but if we bring God into the equation, explain the cow. It is simply a meat creature. We have lambs and such to take care of the lawn mowing, a cow is huge and slow and has basically no natural defenses.

Granted they've been domesticated that way, but I'd wager even the cows hunted back and forth across the plains by neanderthals were fairly easy to kill. Only difficult part would be figuring out how to lug 1100lbs of meat back to camp to feed the family.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I used to be strictly carnivorous. Vegetables were a weird thing in my life, and I didn't want any part of them. However, after losing 72lbs and discovering the necessity of complex carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables - I've found that my body, personally, enjoys the lighter side of eating. My diet during the week is mainly organic vegan/light vegetarianism. I feel lighter, healthier, and just better. My omnivorous husband gives me a hard time about it though, calls me a hippie; then again he grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana. Disassociation with their cows as living things, and coming to know them as just 'product', was essential for living out there. Well, essential if you wanted to not cry everyday. Call me weak, but it's the 'pain of the product' that gets me. The factories, the small cages, no access to the outdoors, the unnecessary filth. It's just too much.

I am not against people eating meat. Everyone I know eats meat, we go out to eat together, everyone gets along and I don't ever hassle them about it. People are still weary of me though. Think I'm going to start throwing red paint on everything and start chanting about Gaia while gyrating. I'm not, it's okay. Enjoy your meal.

 

[Eventidal]

I am an omnivore. My teeth are evolved for both the ripping of meat and the chewing of plants. Naturally, my body can digest and gain nutrients from both meat and plant.

That's just fact.
Opinion? The best reasons to be vegetarian or vegan are health reasons. I don't really care about my health enough to limit my diet so greatly. Honestly, you're not going to stop the slaughter of innocent animals by not eating meat. Even if everyone did that and meat went out of production entirely, animals would still eat each other in nature and die in some pretty gruesome ways. We as a species don't tend to treat other animals with nearly the respect they deserve, but I don't think our treatment of the ones used as food is necessarily the biggest problem in our "animal relations" department.

 

[Texas Joker 52]

Personally, I don't eat meat. Can't stomach meat for some psychological reason, or something else. But, It's not because I'm against meat, that's not it at all. It's just... Not for me.

Besides, if I'm not eating meat, that means more for those that appreciate it, am I right?

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Yeah. I'm fond of meat. Very fond.

I've gone hunting in the past for it. Rather fun to do, if you get the chance

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Meat is delicious. I have nothing more to add...

 

[coolbeans21]

Slow cooked, pulled pork cuban sandwich, surely the food of kings, I honestly cant get enough of it.

On the flip side, I am trying get a bit more veg in me, my last work medical had the doctor pointing out some depressing truths about healthy eating

 

[Dimitriov]

I don't always eat food. But when I do, I prefer meat.

 

[lacktheknack]

It's a delicious part of my diet. I eat a lot of veggies, but I need protein that's NOT laced with estrogen. Meat works.