Why I Don't Eat Pork . . .

[LongRanger]

. . . or bacon. Or ham . . .

https://5hotnews.com/2018/01/12/vide...red-the-media/

Tended my Grandparents animals at their farm, when I was kid

Cows, chickens, and --- my favorite . . . pigs. Smart. Friendly. Funny


Couldn't watch when the Butcher came . . . and they knew something was up


I'll eat chicken and fish, all day long --- they're not sentient

But a pig? . . . . . is




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[Frank Beck]

If God didn't want us eating pigs he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

Pass the sausage please.

[sebastianroher]

If God didn't want us eating pigs he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

Pass the sausage please.

I agree w/ Frank. When my little bro came home from Alaska and decided he was going to play farmer I was skeptical at first; but let me tell you, there is nothing like fresh sausage!

[Peanut]

I won't click on the link, as I really enjoyed some andouille sausage in jambalaya this week.

Scott

[Jon B]

If God didn't want us eating pigs he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

[Frank Beck]

I draw the line at dogs and cats.

Although I believe that I would even eat cat as long as it was prepared properly and wasn't a neighbor's.

[LongRanger]

Never gave much thought about food, when I was a kid

Go to the store, buy it

Then take it home, cook, eat, repeat

All the nasty/dirty/heavy-lifting stuff got done for me. Biggest thing I had to worry about was doing the dishes


Ahhh --- but making your own food? . . . like butchering an animal to eat? . . .


. . . VERY Different Deal


I've never hunted animals to eat, but I have a lot of respect for anyone who eats what they kill. That's how things used to be --- can't hunt = can't eat. I've eaten fish that I've caught. And chickens that I took out of our yard. But that was enough for me . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJuCJ9sLmg

Nice set-up, this. We used a stump + hatchet


My introduction to the 'food-chain'

Get an animal --- a chick or a calf or a piglet . . .

. . . tend to it every day. Feed it. Make sure it's healthy. Watch it jump around and grow, shiny, strong, vital. Have it come to me when it sees me, take food from my hand, comfort from my touch

Then kill it --- myself, personally = with my own hands . . . or call the people who do

And watch how something that I raised and cared-for, from time I could hold it in my hand . . .


. . . turns into a stack of neatly-wrapped packages that get kept in a freezer


Makes me wonder . . .

. . . how many people would eat what they eat . . . if they had to raise it then kill it, too?




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[LongRanger]

. . . I draw the line at dogs and cats.

Although I believe that I would even eat cat as long as it was prepared properly and wasn't a neighbor's . . .

I'm an Iguana Man, myself . . .



. . . 'no chickens in the Yucatan'




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[John Z Goriup]

It's all well and good to show a shot of Brigitte Bardot in her early twenties, intensly sexy and georgeous - of course many a normal male would gladly make complete fools of themselves in the pursuit of such a prize, but let's not forget for a moment that the juvenile, simplistic high-school level farmers almanac admonishment of " we are what we eat" never-the-less contains a great deal of essential truth.

As a specific example I give you this recent image of an 83-year old Brigitte B. who chose to become a vegan fifty years ago and has been obnoxiously active in the global animal rights movement and eats nothing but fruit, pasta and leafy vegetables........... look at her now ( if you can bear it ).

At my age I should know better than to rise to the bait of a ridiculous thread like this, but Damn it, whatever became of the once popular and lately much ridiculed belief that moderation in all things is really the essence of a contended life - lived well.

JZG