Does anyone else get really put off by eating meat?

[Rachaelxo]

I'm not a vegetarian, but does anyone else ever be eating food then just realise once this animal that your about to eat was up running around and be really put off eating it? Or is this just me?

[JohnnySS]

since I've been growing over the last few years 25+ my sense of smell has increased like never before. my stamina has also shot through the roof. and i find i learn a lot easier! i can smell the type of meat a person has eaten if i get whiff of their body odor. i can can tell if a person eats pork, veal, duck, chicken.. i can smell it. it smells bad. never was i able to smell so well before. no i can smell it and it doesn't smell good. thats why I've stopped eating those meats too. im a vegetarian, sometimes i will eat meat but i will stay the fuck away from those meats. sometimes i eat chicken, id rather smell good.

[Vegvisir]

No, it doesn't put me off. You have to respect the animal though, it died for you. It is important to remember that it used to be alive and running around otherwise you lose touch with the reality of it and see it as just meat, and not dead animal. We even have cover up names for meats now. If you see a steak you think "beef", and not "cow". Makes it easier for people to forget that their food is the result of something's death. Sorry for going off at a tangent, this is pretty important to me though :P

[Rachaelxo]

That actually helps. I do like meat. But sometimes il just be really put off because it was alive

[MissConfused93]

I get put off too. If I think about what I'm eating I can't stomach it and have my appetite ruined.

[Rachaelxo]

Yes me too. Like il be about to take a bite then just feel grossed out

[MissConfused93]

Yep! Same. Sometimes I think I should be a vegetarian but I only eat chicken and not eating any meat would be very inconvenient.

[Rachaelxo]

Yes same.. I only really eat chicken too. It's not for guilt reasons or anything like that I don't have a problem with people eating meat. But I just can't stomach it when I overthink about eating it haha. Plus living on a diet without meat would be awkward..

[MissConfused93]

I agree.

[SadWalkingAwaySong]

Isn't this a biased BA?

[Rachaelxo]

Em no because the question was does anyone else get put off by eating meat.. She answered the question. I wasn't looking for someone to give me a lecture on the cycle of life or on animal cruelty I was simply wondering does anyone else feel a bit gross eating meat.. So yeh she answered me and that's what I selected this as MHO

[MissConfused93]

Thanks for MH haha (:

[Stacyzee]

As I am reading this I am digesting beef.

No, I don't feel put off by it at all.
Rarely, do I ever think about what I eat.

We live in a world that is pretty much a food chain.
If we didn't have all of the technology and equipment we have now, chances are
we would be eaten by some animal anyway.
So why feel bad?
It is how species survive

[rickytheguy]

and the animals should take all the pain just to satisfy your tongue for 5 seconds?

[madhatters4]

not especially. maybe sometimes for a fleeting second or two. but such is the circle of life. if those thoughts come into my mind then I almost immediately think, if I didn't eat this I'd be messing with the natural order of the world, and perhaps the chickens would take over the Earth

[rickytheguy]

I wanna cur off your hand and eat it. because it's the circle of life. If I didn't eat it, I'll be messing with natural order. I can laugh from my ass!

[madhatters4]

thanks ricky for the that nearly indiscernible attempt at an insult.

[rickytheguy]

you will know for yourself

[TheNewClassic]

Nope. But i can't eat meat when I saw it raw, so disgusting.

[Rachaelxo]

I know I can't eat it once I've seen it raw either

[RedThread]

When I think about it too hard yes.. I just try not to think about it too hard lol

I'm eating something delicious instead of I'm ripping into what was once a living creature's flesh.

[decemberxblue]

I get turned off by:

-Cloned meat, also a large figure of bull semen sold to farmers derives from cloned bulls.

-Meat from animals who were in cruel living conditions.

-Animals who were slaughtered in a painful manner.

[Rachaelxo]

What is cloned meat?

[decemberxblue]

"Most cloning today uses a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). Just as with in vitro fertilization, scientists take an immature egg from a female animal (often from ovaries obtained at the slaughterhouse). But instead of combining it with sperm, they remove the nucleus (which contains the egg’s genes). This leaves behind the other components necessary for an embryo to develop. Scientists then add the nucleus containing the desirable traits from the animal the farmer wishes to copy. After a few other steps, the donor nucleus and egg fuse, start dividing, and an embryo begins to form. The embryo is then implanted in the uterus of a surrogate dam (again the same as with in vitro fertilization), which carries it to term. (“Dam” is a term that livestock breeders use to refer to the female parent of an animal). The clone is delivered just like any other baby animal."

[decemberxblue]

"... most dairy farms don’t have bulls, so more than 70% of the Holstein cows bred in the United States are artificially inseminated. The frozen semen can come from a bull many miles, or even many States, away."

Source: www.fda.gov/.../ucm108131.htm

[decemberxblue]

Obviously, it means the meat, as well as cow milk is affected.

[Rachaelxo]

Omg that's so weird ! I've never even heard of this before ! I think in Northern Ireland though we do have a lot of farms and most of our meat does come from a farm. I'm not 100% sure though. Going to have to do some research myself !

[decemberxblue]

Apparently this has reached the UK. Do your research, though.

[Anonymous]

Not really no. To me, my meat is not an animal, it's a steak. But, I ONLY buy meat from animals, who have been treated well, and had a good life. I simply can't eat anything else, and I refuse to support it.
Preferable I would only eat meat, from animals I have bred or killed myself. I wan't to have rabbits and chickens at home for eating, and get a hunting license. In that way, I know they have never felt pain, and have had great lives :)

[lumos]

Well, I just got done eating some bacon, and I don't feel any guilt, so... no.

[Rachaelxo]

No I don't feel guilty. Just more like feel it's a bit gross that once it was alive

[lumos]

Well duh, where else would meat come from, but animals that were once alive. :P

[Ricosuavemente]

Half of everything I eat consist of meat and love it, don't feel bad for the animal at all. Its the circle of life... mmmmm... getting hungry just thinking about it.

[rickytheguy]

circle of life is dieing naturally, not for dieing to pleasure your tongue. you take a life of an animal who feel pain just like you, and skinned to satisfy 2 square inches of nerve endings and for how long? for few seconds till it get pass your tongue

[DodgersGM]

Yes, it makes me feel gross.

In the rate event I eat meat, I buy it very carefully and do a lot of homework on how the animal was raised.

[DodgersGM]

*rare event

[SaVes]

Put off? No, not at all. I just don't want it in my meals.

[Rachaelxo]

Are u a vegetarian?

[SaVes]

I've been a vegetarian since my teens. I'm now vegan actually.

[Rachaelxo]

Why did u choose to be vegan? Just curious?

[SaVes]

Ethical/ecological reasons.

[Monsieur_Gamma]

I personally will continue to eat meat for as long as I live... Meat is buff, especially chicken, pork, duck and rabbit.

[myspacemybroke]

Yeah I think about that. Makes the desire to eat it that much stronger. This thing had a mother once... damn he's tasty.

[Creole_Flavor]

Well I do sometimes but its not because its an animal, but because it probably was not the best health option for me at that time.

[yaddayaddayadda02]

I don't have an issue with it at all. Meat is too damn tasty.

[rickytheguy]

yap I do, not by thinking that the animal was alive but knowing it's wrong to take someone else's life to please your taste

[Anonymous]

Meat stinks!

But I do like it, I tearing into an 80z Rib-eye with my canines chowing down on that moo, moo cow!

[Anonymous]

No. I'm a human being who eats meat to survive. Why would that bother me?

[jeanbean]

The circle of life is delicious.

[abundantlyrich]

Lamb stinks so does beef...

[Rachaelxo]

Yeh the smell kind of puts me off too

[Anonymous]

I hate it when I finish my steak and there aren't anymore ready to eat