The moral argument of eating meat & dairy

Mikinton

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db

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henryscat said:
Easy to take the piss rather than consider where your food comes from.
you assume that people give a shit :?:

i know i'm eating mechanically separated meat product, i know how it is produced, etc.. i know i'm eating eyelids and scrotum and god knows what else, but it's damn tasty when it's put through the mill (quide liderally :keke: ) and made presentable.. stop trying to drag an informative yet light-hearted thread down! as the previous poster says:

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady said:
Were not trying to convert anyone or push our views, were just discussing food!
 

tek-monkey

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Isn't eating all of an animal the best way? If you left all the sub-prime bits then the animal has fed less people, seems a waste.
 

henryscat

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db said:
you assume that people give a shit :?:
You clearly don't, but some do. So don't tar everyone with your brush.

=i know i'm eating mechanically separated meat product, i know how it is produced, etc.. i know i'm eating eyelids and scrotum and god knows what else, but it's damn tasty when it's put through the mill (quide liderally :keke: ) and made presentable..
I'd place money that you wouldn't be such a smart arse about it if you had to kill your own animals for meat, but then you probably wouldn't have the balls to do it.


stop trying to drag an informative yet light-hearted thread down! as the previous poster says:

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady said:
Were not trying to convert anyone or push our views, were just discussing food!
I wasn't as you well know. I had taken part in the thread in the spirit it was intended. I object to the puerile contributions from United57 and Mikinton which dragged the thread down. Your contributions are equally as puerile.
 

henryscat

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tek-monkey said:
Isn't eating all of an animal the best way? If you left all the sub-prime bits then the animal has fed less people, seems a waste.
Whilst I don't agree with eating animals, I do agree that if you are everything should be used. Unfortunately because factory farming has made cheap meat abundantly available, people are wasteful. I suspect that most people who buy the cheapest chickens (for instance) don't use everything off it.
 

Mikinton

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henryscat said:
I wasn't as you well know. I had taken part in the thread in the spirit it was intended. I object to the puerile contributions from United57 and Mikinton which dragged the thread down. Your contributions are equally as puerile.
"Taken part in the thread in the spirit it was intended"?

LOL

Did you actually read the first two posts, both of which poke fun at veggies? I suspect my contribution is more in keeping with the spirit of the thread than your attempts to divert it have been.
 

henryscat

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Mikinton said:
Did you actually read the first two posts, both of which poke fun at veggies? I suspect my contribution is more in keeping with the spirit of the thread than your attempts to divert it have been.
I ignored those. Actually wasn't the thread suggested to separate the discussion that was taking place on The Swan thread? So, I took part in the spirit that was intended as a continuation of that, as did others.
 

Mikinton

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henryscat said:
Mikinton said:
Did you actually read the first two posts, both of which poke fun at veggies? I suspect my contribution is more in keeping with the spirit of the thread than your attempts to divert it have been.
I ignored those.
Well maybe you should do likewise with those ingredients you find unpalatable when you eat out, rather than bleating about it.

What the eye doesn't see, and all that ....
 

United57

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henryscat said:
No problem with a veggie version, replace the butter in that recipe with sunflower marg and no animals harmed.
Plaese explain why eating butter is harming animals?
 

joshua

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United57 said:
henryscat said:
No problem with a veggie version, replace the butter in that recipe with sunflower marg and no animals harmed.
Plaese explain why eating butter is harming animals?
Is milking the cows considered inappropriate touching ?
 

henryscat

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United57 said:
henryscat said:
No problem with a veggie version, replace the butter in that recipe with sunflower marg and no animals harmed.
Plaese explain why eating butter is harming animals?
Please explain why it doesn't, as you obviously don't think any harm is involved
 

United57

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henryscat said:
United57 said:
henryscat said:
No problem with a veggie version, replace the butter in that recipe with sunflower marg and no animals harmed.
Plaese explain why eating butter is harming animals?
Please explain why it doesn't, as you obviously don't think any harm is involved
Actually I'm curious. I know we breed cows specially for milking and there are issues of over milking. I assume there are others?
 

henryscat

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United57 said:
Actually I'm curious. I know we breed cows specially for milking and there are issues of over milking. I assume there are others?
Yes, there are a lot of issues, and plenty written about them. A bit of eugenics doesn't make it any more right to breed cows for milk....

A cow would have a natural life expectancy of something like 20 odd years. The fact they are lucky to last a few years ought to tell you something about how overworked they are. A cow only produces milk because she has been pregnant. They are made pregnant every year, and each year the calf is taken away after a few days which causes enormous distress and the calf is either shot or has a short life then becomes veal. Naturally a calf would stay with its mother for 9 to 12 months.

The cow will usually be fed a diet which artificially increases their milk yield, and their udders forced to contain far more milk than they would naturally. Due to being made pregnant annually, further strain is placed on them through lactating and being pregnant simultaneously. Due to all of this they suffer all sorts of health problems and a great deal of discomfort and pain arising from those.

A lot of dairy herds are also kept indoors in confined conditions for at least 6 months of they year.

A blindingly obvious thing to end on - the clue is in the name cow's milk, i.e. it is for cows. The purpose of any milk is to feed infants of that species until they are weaned. What in the name of sanity makes anyone think that consuming cows milk is either acceptable, or sensible? It is not good for your health either.
 

henryscat

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joshua said:
United57 said:
The alternative is soya milk.
There are some downsides though, chiefly that its sugar content can be high, particularly in the flavoured versions. Other issues include the increasing amount of land being used to farm it, which is leading to deforestation in some countries.
How much of the world's crop go towards making soya milk? How much of the world's crops are fed to animals for meat? The former is insignificant, the latter is huge. Deforestation to grow crops is being caused by eating meat.


With an constantly increasing population we must move to more efficient means of food production and sadly animals are no longer efficient as a sustainable food supply,
Sadly?

Feeding crops to animals for meat never was efficient, never was sustainable.

Within our children's lifetimes the very idea of consuming flesh may become obsolete, not for any lofty ideals of compassion but the very real fact that with the with the global population expected to reach between 7.5 and 10.5 billion by 2050 there will be no other way to "feed the world".
Eating animals ought to be obsolete purely on ethical grounds. But on sustainability (and environmental) grounds too, eating meat is completely unsustainable.
 

tek-monkey

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Burning a vastly depleted resource that is our only source of plastics, in inefficient engines purely to move a personal vehicle around is more insane than eating meat.
 

Mikinton

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henryscat said:
Eating animals ought to be obsolete purely on ethical grounds. But on sustainability (and environmental) grounds too, eating meat is completely unsustainable.
Yeah, but when all is said and done, you can't beat a bacon sandwich.
 

henryscat

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tek-monkey said:
Burning a vastly depleted resource that is our only source of plastics, in inefficient engines purely to move a personal vehicle around is more insane than eating meat.
Not really, though the growth in car use globally is unsustainable.

Cheap meat relies on plentiful oil too. The crops that are fed to animals are intensively farmed using fertilisers, the manufacture of which uses a great quantity of oil. Intensive farming of animals is, therefore, heavily dependent on cheap oil. As oil becomes more expensive then the price of meat will rise. Whether or not production falls remains to be seen I guess following that.
 
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