Dirty Little Secret: Sometimes I play "Meat is Murder" to make me feel guilty for eating meat

[Taverner]

Seriously - I love meat, and being Calvinist, feel the punishment must be doing something.

[pipi_k]

1. I do that too

Not that I love meat, because I don't really. But I've gotten so good at it, that I even feel guilty about eating seafood, which I love.

[Taverner]

9. I don't mind killing fish...

I do mind killing cows and pigs...

Mammals get my attention

[pipi_k]

11. I haven't

eaten beef in over six years, ever since I went to a county fair and spotted, up close, a beautiful young black bull destined, eventually, for "the market".

I was so close I could see its eyelashes.

And I had just eaten a cheeseburger like 20 minutes before. I felt wretched, and it was the very last time I ever ate beef.

Still eating the pork, but it's getting harder and harder to do. If I ever come face to face with a pig, it will probably spell the end of my pork/ham eating.

Chicken and turkey...less guilt, but some.

Fish...less than chicken and turkey, as long as I don't see it in any form other than a filet.

Sometimes when I eat plants I imagine I can hear them screaming.

The only food that doesn't cause horrible guilt is mac and cheese, but that's only because it's so processed it's hard to imagine it being something else in a previous life.

[union_maid]

2. Yeah. I do feel guilty eating it.

I like it, too. Even more compelling, I have to cook it for other people sometimes and I'm way too lazy to make extra meals. But I do feel real bad about it and I'm sure there will be a karmic price to pay.

[Taverner]

8. I don't believe in karma....but...

I think people in the future will look at you and I like we look at slave holding families in 1800's USA...

[olddots]

3. I have lived with "special needs " eaters for so long

I don't give a shit anymore -I will eat gravel .

[winter is coming]

5. So *you're* the person who buys Grape Nuts!

I've always wondered who that was.

[winter is coming]

4. Sometimes I play it for the cheap thrill of imagining myself as a serial killer.

[lastlib]

6. Well, like I said in another thread.....

....a cow is nothing more than a T-bone steak wrapped in shoe leather. Cows are so dumb, we're doin' 'em a favor by eating 'em.

[Taverner]

7. Not really...

Cows are pretty smart. They know they are being killed. They run when they get the chance.

[HERVEPA]

14. What an idiotic, thoughtless, selfish inhumane post.

Why do think you are more intelligent than the cow?
"Lastlib"? Generally liberals are thought to have empathy.

[lastlib]

15. I raised them.

I have first-hand experience with them. Why do I think I'm more intelligent than a cow? Well, not a single one on my cows ever learned to read, let alone solve differential equations..... I have plenty of empathy--for humans, and a few other select higher animals that don't provide me with food. I probably lost my empathy for cattle when one of them tried to crush me against a concrete wall.

As for the sniveling "idiotic, thoughtless, selfish" crap, you can take that and stuff it. Click. Ignore.

[harmonicon]

10. It's just such a bad song that I don't think it could influence me...

to feel anything, other than a bit sorry for The Smiths for putting out such crap when so much of their other work was excellent.

[hobbit709]

12. I don't feel guilty about what I eat.

As a species, we are omnivores. the grazer branches of the hominid family tree didn't survive.

[Taverner]

16. Actually, hominids have gone back and forth

We are intelligent opportunists who will find a way to eat what we can.

[sir pball]

13. I like to play it when

I'm dressing out and hanging the deer I just shot

For the actual butchering later I prefer something calmer and more focused, usually Liszt or the Well-Tempered Clavier. Need precision there.

[In_The_Wind]

17. I will not apologize about being a carnivore.

Without meat I feel hungry an hour after eating. So sue me.