In Vietnam, there is such a meal as goat meat. or goat curry. I thought it tasted kind of bad, but i just thought, what the heck, it's like any other piece of meat. But i soon found out the horrible way they kill the goats.
Before butchers slaughter the goats, they tie the goats up and beat them to death. Because if the goat didn't sweat, it would smell really bad after you cooked it. So they beat the goats to death and then chop them up. From that day on, i have NEVER eaten goat again.
2006-09-26 12:07:26 · 20 answers · asked by blah 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
If this is true, it sounds terrible, however, we must keep in mind that it is a different culture. What is wrong to us is entirely normal to others. But, thanks for the news, I wont be eating any goat any time soon.
2006-09-26 12:11:15 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's cruel, but probably isn't considered cruelty, because it's sort of similar to kosher kills and their place in our society.
For meat to qualify as kosher, two things are required. The animal must be knowingly bled (awake) and no blood can be in the meat-that includes veins, arteries and circulatory organs and structures. the simplest way to do a kosher kill, and the one that's preacticed in every slaughterhouse in the country, is to loop a noose around one of a cow's legs, whack it in the head to stun it (without knocking it out or killing it), hoist it up in the air, upside down, by one leg (a cow's leg isn't made to take that stress and shatters-usually right before it's ripped out of the socket, hence the noose which gets tighter as the pull increases) and slit it's throat so that it bleeds to death. That gets you a kosher kill.
Now there are a lot of veins in arteries in any animal, more so in bigger animals. Now while it would be a bit of work to kill a cow and process it according to kosher standards so that a single cow could provide nearly as much kosher meat as it could without worrying about kosher standards (so only roughly 5% would go through this process), there's an easier way to make sure that the kosher need (a little over 5% of US demand) is met. You get that part of a cow which naturally conforms to kosher requirements of having no blood or circultory stuff(a litle over 5% of a cow) and make EVERY kill a kosher kill.
I guess you have to decide for yourself whether or not something you've been a part of-maybe unknowingly but a part nonetheless-is cruel. It's the standard for your society, just like beating a goat to death is the standard for the Vietnamese. Something is considered cruelty by a society, not an individual. You can see something that's cruel, but if your siciety accepts it it's not considered cruelty.
2006-09-26 12:34:38 · answer #2 · answered by sdwillie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't sound very nice to me however, what makes you think that just because the Vietnamese beat their goats to death all goat meat throughout the world is prepared in a similar fashion?
2006-09-26 12:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by chloe40dd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they sell goats here in the USA for meat, but I have never heard of that method or reason before. If a male goat is not cut, he will stink no matter what, but most of your goat farms sell off the young bucks just for meat. There is a meat goat here, called the Boer goat that is used just like cattle...
2006-09-26 12:12:44 · answer #4 · answered by Just Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my! Well I am a Veggie ( i do not eat meat) I have a goat and he is so cute! I would think that is Cruel but i am a veggie due to other things then Save the animals! That too but! Um, I think they need to find another way that is like making it suffer its so sAd!!!!
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2006-09-26 12:11:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well i personally think goat taste bad cuz it has a grainy taste... and it does smell bad. but thats just me. but if thats is how the meat is prepared there is no way of saying whats right or wrong, since you are in a different country. its like in american cow butchers use tazer guns and shock the cows to stun them than take a big caliper bullet to there head. so is that considered cruelty? i think its just culture differences.
2006-09-26 12:15:58 · answer #6 · answered by anthony y 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First I have heard of it. It seems to be something that happens in that area only. Idiots i would call them. Extremely cruel and a load of shi*. Goats meat will always smell like goats meat no matter how much it sweats. It seems to me that the village you visited was a settlment full of village idiots.
2006-09-26 12:17:13 · answer #7 · answered by GhandiDahandi 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many people eat meat. It may seem cruel but we need to eat and that is what animals are here for. I probably would find a more humane way to send an animal to the world of spirits.
2006-09-26 12:11:56 · answer #8 · answered by carmen d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely cruelty! Geez, why don't we just beat the butchers to death then since it's "okay" for them to beat the goats up. DEATH TO ALL CRUEL PEOPLE!
2006-09-26 12:54:42 · answer #9 · answered by xxxshiningxstarxxx 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YUCK! I never will eat goat I didnt know that but I do like the cheese dip made out of their milk!
2006-09-26 12:15:12 · answer #10 · answered by Lauren D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋