My sister is a vegetarian, and while she doesn't push her ideas onto us, all I can think of is the turkey's neck being broken. What do you think I ought to do so that I could enjoy my Thanksgiving w/o guilt like I use to?
2006-10-27 04:03:34 · 24 answers · asked by lisa z 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
The don't butcher them by breaking their necks. It is done more humanely than that.
Turkeys have a relatively short life-span. If not raised for food, they may live a month or so longer, only to be brutally killed by predators.
Try getting a turkey breast to roast. It looks less like a bird.
2006-10-27 04:06:19 · answer #1 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
I'm sorry, but there is simply no escape from the fact that the bird you are eating had been born, raised, and killed so that you can eat it. To pretend it hasn't been is a very big insult to the creature you should be giving thanks for.
I can appriciate how you're feeling though. For most vegetarians there is a transitionary period between the time they learn the true horrors and cost of meat, and the time they decide to give it up forever, and during that time it's quite uncomfortable.
There is no going backwards on knowledge. You are no longer ignorant of that bird's suffering, and you will never be ignorant of it again.
Your sister is a good person for not forcing her views onto you. However if you want my opinion on how to feel guilt-free this Thanksgiving, all I can tell you is to take a leaf out of her book, and have a delivious tofurkey guilt-free holiday.
2006-10-27 14:31:51 · answer #2 · answered by indygocean 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi Lisa,
I see that many people are very eager to make you feel less guilty. If you have second thoughts about the turkey it is because you feel compassion in your heart which is totally natural.
Maybe you should take a look at this website. It is really cute. Hope you will join your sister for a guilt-free Veg. meal and spare the suffering of a turkey. Do not foget that the Turkey you don't eat this year will give you many thanks!!!!!
http://www.adoptaturkey.org/
Best of luck
2006-10-27 04:18:00 · answer #3 · answered by Lonelyplanet 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You can't. You've already acknowledged the fact that those turkeys were slaughtered inhumanely, and the only way to eat the turkey without feeling guilt would be:
1. Get rid of your conscience and emotions, which I highly doubt you could do, or
2. Go vegetarian, like your sister and I.
2006-10-27 10:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Remember flower, you are in 'Veggie land' most of us are gonna say just dont eat any turkey et voila - guilt free thanksgiving. Buy a tofurkey or a quorn roast or some quorn tenders instead !!!!
2006-10-27 10:40:10 · answer #5 · answered by Andielep 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humane meat processing is a very fast growing business. Whole Foods recently introduced a store brand that guarantees that all the meats sold used humane painless processing, and that animals were well taken care of while being raised.
Sure the turkey you eat will have died. But if we didnt eat Turkeys, that turkey would never have been born in the first place. (For example, since we dont eat buzzards, there are no commercial buzzard farms).
so buy a humanely processed bird, and enjoy.
2006-10-27 04:11:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Animals were put on earth for us to eat. I am not a religious person, but it really does make sense. Thanksgiving was started with turkeys so many years ago, who are we to change tradition? Turkeys are also stupid useless creatures. Seriously, they are better off on our plates.
2006-10-27 17:22:00 · answer #7 · answered by ejg411 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Society generally recognizes two types of animals:
1. "Companion Animals" (dog, cat, gerbil, etc)
2. "Food Animals" (cow, pig, sheep, etc)
Some cultures (such as China, for example) do not differentiate between the two and it is acceptable to consume animals regardless of their "companion" status.
I know of farms where the animals are raised, named, treated as pets, and then eaten. If you are not vegetarian by choce there should be no guilt in eating a turkey that was raised to be eaten.
Happy Thanksgiving.
2006-10-27 04:11:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
get a quorn turkey roast, it seriously has the same taste and texture and is meat free. if you still want real turkey, by free range so at least you know it had a good life before hand.
2006-10-27 14:58:40 · answer #9 · answered by C J 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Keep in mind that these turkeys were born in order to be killed. They actually lived better lives whilst alive- being fed and cared for medicinally, versus wild turkeys who have to forrage for food and avoid being killed by natural predators.
The turkey on your plate was born, raised and slaughtered humanely, so that you could enjoy the meat. If you even have one morssel of regret or sadness, grow up.
2006-10-27 04:07:13 · answer #10 · answered by Baxter's Dad 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋