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My daughter is vegan and my son is vegetarian so they would say don't eat meat. As for me I do enjoy a good barbecue so it would be hard for me to go without meat. My wife and I are having turkey today for Easter dinner. The kids will make their own food.
Barbecued meat tastes amazing. It's hard to argue with that. Even better tasting imho is meat grilled over a campfire.
Only problem is, while it tastes delicious, barbecued meat remains the dead bodies of living beings who wanted to go on living.
I have learned over past summers that while I love the flavor of barbecued cows and birds, I also find the flavor of barbecued corn and asparagus right tasty.
I'm an omnivore, largely. Vegetarian for a few years in my 20s, often give up meat for Lent.
Don't really 'get' vegan. The animals wouldn't exist if it weren't for their purpose of producing milk, eggs, honey, so it seems to me that it's merely a matter, as with most humans, of working for a living. And of humane care of the cows and chickens when they cease producing. Perhaps the price of eggs should incorporate those couple of years at the end of her life when Molly the hen gets to cluck and scratch and peck, while producing few or no eggs.
The animals would exist. Why would they not.
Most of the species we feed on do not exist in nature.They are the products of centuries of selective breeding from natural originals that were domesticated millennia ago. A domestic cow released into the wild could simply not survive.
Then don't release them into the wild. Care for them in kind, compassionate ways. No need for us humans to keep torturing and slaughtering them.
I was not advocating for inhumane treatment, Jae, and I generally, myself, purchase my eggs at a farmers' market, from a farmer I know and respect as an ethical human being.
BetteTheRed said:The animals would not exist in any fashion recognizable to us. They would go extinct with no-one to look after them; alternatively, a few might survive and evolve into some wild fashion of the domesticated. We have "domesticated" them. We're not going to have a sudden influx of cows on the streets, wild chickens in our backyards, if we all go vegan.
What about the people who have made their living this way?
BetteTheRed said:"Torture" and "slaughter" don't need to go together. Animals can live lovely lives well-cared by farmers, gently led by their farmer friend into a comfortable conveyance, then slaughtered respectfully and humanely.