Do you eat beef?

[Argranade]

Arganade,
I do not eat KFC either. The way they kill their chickens is cruel and wrong. I have stickers that say NO KFC and as soon as I saw those I haven't eaten KFC since...

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Kentucky fried crewlty ''woot woot''

Yep.

[CathyBogart]

I don't cook meat for myself, but if I am at someone's house where they are serving meat I will usually eat it, with the exception of veal (for moral reasons) and ham (because it tasted gross).

The fact that a fair number of people don't eat meat DOES make a difference. Just because one person doesn't eat a steak doesn't mean another person is going ot eat an extra one in their place. By not buying meat, even a single person reduces the demand slightly. The more the demand for meat is reduced, the less meat will be produced.

[kt_luvs_kitties]

I dont.

[jackie]

I didn't eat any meat from age 12-ish, until I was 17.

Now I love it.

Kudos to all you vegetarians out there, I just hate when some of them act like they are taking the moral high road.

[dragonfly]

I'm not a vegetarian. But I do try to limit my meat intake and also purchase non-factory farmed meat. The only beef that I personally buy is free range, grass fed, local beef. Raising cows on grain is not their natural diet, cows are designed to eat grass. The grain is for making them grow faster and fatter, it gives the meat extra fat or marbeling which is desired by many consumers.

Animals die everyday because of accidents, not limitted to food production. But I have to say that I think for a lot of vegetarians the issue is not necessarily about one animals death, but the treatment of the collective groups of factory farmed animals. Also there is a significant amount of environmental damage done by factory farming of animals, which many vegetarians consider too when choosing not to eat meat.

Anyway those are my basic thoughts on the meat or no meat issue. I hope I didn't upset anyone. Someday I will probably switch to a vegetarian but not vegan diet. It's your personal choice what you choose to eat but I personally believe that your personal choices do have an impact on the situation.

[Almita]

Yah i eat meat i have tried but is not working to quit but i don't eat seafood, or pork.

[Cataholic]

I don't eat meat. For humane reasons, first and foremost.

Cagneydog, I was a bit taken aback by your argument. If one follows your "one single person isn't making any difference" to its logical conclusion, all of us should throw in the towel to many of our passions- 'saving' animals, spaying and nuetering our pets, preaching responsible pet ownership, shoot, even recylcing! I can't remember who on here has that quote, but, it goes something like this, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for one person to turn away".

I don't hit my meat eating family/friends over the head with, "don't eat meat". But, if they ask me, I educate them. I was a meat eater for a long time, after not eating it for a long time. And, for me, personally, not eating meat sits much better with me. I feel 'better' about doing **my** part.

[anna_66]

I guess that would have to be a big YES since I just purchased a whole hog and a side of beef