if you were faced with this circumstance as an only option, what would you choose to eat?
1) a chicken raised on pasture out the sun from a local family organic farm or
2) 20 lbs. of vegetables grown on a commercial farm with depleted soil, sprayed with pesticides, and who don't treat their workers fairly?
2006-08-17 16:03:57 · 47 answers · asked by curious1 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
this question is primarily for veg/vegans.
2006-08-17 16:11:00 · update #1
thats a good moral question. i would eat the chicken. if the veg farm was organic and paid fair wages i would eat the vegies but since its not, social justice outweighs health
2006-08-17 16:26:39 · answer #1 · answered by guitar_lady81 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1
2006-08-17 16:08:04 · answer #2 · answered by awsumrocker 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the chicken- i'm vegetarian but only for four years- and i'm not that strict i've had like chicken broth and stuff knowingly before. And so are you saying we shouldn't eat vegetables because that's how many of them are grown? Let me tell you the VAST majority of chickens aren't grown in a sunny happy environment. Their raised in mass production farms where they're pumped with hormones to make them produce more muscle and are kept in cages where they can't move so they stay tender. Don't even get me started about eggs- i only buy free range now. I find that to be alot more offensive than spraying vegetables with pesticides and supposed workers not being treated nicely. Anyway where I live there's lots of famer's markets and small family farms- they don't use harsh pesticides and they raise all the veggies themselves. Too bad there's not too many of those anymore.
2006-08-17 16:12:16 · answer #3 · answered by opi 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the chicken, I am firm believer that we should eat meat that comes from places such as you have described, it has had a happy life and been treated well so no wonder they taste so good. I bought a chicken once from a supermarket that had a big bruise on the breast bone and the bone was shattered, it had obviously been kicked in the chest so hard the bone broke and it was still alive when the injury happened as it would not have bruised otherwise. What a terrible way for a bird to end it's life, scared and in pain. I will never buy those mass-produced chicken ever again.
2006-08-18 00:04:40 · answer #4 · answered by sparkleythings_4you 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. 1.
2006-08-17 23:08:03 · answer #5 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
most veggies are from places like that lol, unless they're labeled otherwise...
i suppose this is a great question because it will instantly indicate your reason for being a vegetarian/vegan. if you're veggie for health reasons, you'll eat the chicken in a heartbeat. if it's for moral reasons, you won't think twice about eating the veggies. of course, the chances of actually being in that situation are slim, and if it did happen, i wouldn't eat either.
if that question was asked with genuine curiosity, good job. if it was just to taunt vegetarians/vegans...kinda lame. i'm guessing the former lol
2006-08-17 17:13:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. And when a chicken farm comes along that raises them humanely, not cramped in small cages, not pumped full of hormones, not de-beaked, etc you let me know. Because as of right now, none exsist. And I purchase all of my veggies from organic farmers, most of them are local.
2006-08-17 16:13:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The chicken raised on pasture. Definitely. Because even if it is chicken, it's much healthier than toxin-drenched vegetables. Especially when it's organic.
2006-08-17 16:08:13 · answer #8 · answered by n_goel17 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tofu raised by chickens eating pesticides.
2006-08-18 06:20:50 · answer #9 · answered by Joyce T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would tottally pick nuba 1. because if I was stranded I wouldn;t want to eat somtin with pesticides because personally I think they can do alot o damage to your systom. but on the other hand the chicken gives you lots of protein that is valuble to your health and maybe u coukd do somtin with the chicken feathers like ya know?
2006-08-17 16:12:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋