do you think your still be able to eat meat if you worked in a slaughterhouse for a day? im just curious
2007-07-25 07:41:45 · 60 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
I'm sure I'd be okay... I've watched lions eat animals on the discovery channel and I've seen a chicken get its head cut off. Its all a part of the circle of life. Lion King line..hehe.
2007-07-25 07:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by MsCrtr 6 · 6⤊ 7⤋
No.
And the other part of this question is:
If you knew what the animal you're eating ate, whether
cows, chickens, lambs, you'd never buy regular meat again.
I found out and since then I only eat vegetarian-fed chickens, grass fed beef, and vegetarian fed hens who lay eggs.
Regular beef, pork, chickens, are also injected with hormones ... I don't want these either.
(These grass fed, vegetarian-fed meats cost more but I'm not into eating what I call garbage.)
The other kind is too gross for words.
Animals on the farms where these meat products originate of course kill the animals ... but they treat the animals humanely, no unnecessary suffering.
Slaughterhouses make the slaughterers brutes, I think. And the treatment of the animals is a living nightmare.
Moreover, this treatment is not new.
Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair; a book that was written about 75 years ago.
2007-07-25 07:57:30 · answer #2 · answered by kia 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As a meat eater I would much rather be able to slaughter my own cow for a piece of steak. I believe in knowing exactly where your food comes from. However killing a whole cow just so I, personally, could have some meat would be wasteful not to mention expensive.
So yes, I think I would still be able to eat meat after working in a slaughterhouse for a day. I worked hard for that food.
2007-07-25 07:47:41 · answer #3 · answered by John 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
To answer an honest question, if I were to work in a slaughterhouse for a day it might turn me off for a bit, but I would most likely get over it and eat meat as early as a few hours later.
2007-07-25 07:46:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I had to go to a slaughterhouse for one of my college classes and it was not the best experience in the world. I could watch the process AFTER the animal was killed but I could not watch the actual killing. I guess it is easier to order a steak at a restaurant and not think about how the steak got there. I do eat meat but I can honestly say that I could not do the dirty work unless I was starving. I mean about to die starving. Kinda of a two sided answer but I think that is how most people feel about it.
2007-07-25 10:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I'm not a "meat eater", I'm an omnivore, but I will still answer your question: Yes, I could. It's not the killing and the butchering of the animals that makes meat unethical, it is the way the animals are treated that could make it unethical. I have no problems with killing and butchering my own dinner, just like I have no problem with growing my own fruits and veggies(well, except the weeding part:P).
2007-07-25 09:14:42 · answer #6 · answered by littlevivi 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I knew a few young men who worked in abortours (slaughter houses) who said they could not eat meat for months because it was so disgusting. The whole experience even converted someone into a vegan and they went back to school and got a career in something else.
The fact is you are rounding up animals and killing hem and hen the after wards bit of cutting them up. I imagine it would be dirty and smelly and depressing. Animals have feelings and feel happiness and sadness and depression like all other living creatures. To say an animal does not what is going on is ridiculous.
2007-07-25 07:55:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
No. I can't even eat eggs if I know the hen that laid them. Can't drink milk from a cow I've milked either. I can't eat any meat that looks the same dead as it did alive, and I certainly couldn't eat it if I saw it beforehand. If I had to kill something to eat it, I'd eat grass instead and the critter would live a long and happy life. So why am I a meat eater? Good question, I don't have an answer for that.
2007-07-25 07:47:12 · answer #8 · answered by Lola 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
ummm...yeah. I'm still just a girl, and I saw that happen when i was 8. i love animals and nothing will stop me from eating steak. especially some vegan that thinks i need to change the way i eat because they think they should decide for me. i love steak and some communist isn't gonna change that.
2007-07-27 14:21:00 · answer #9 · answered by Emily Huff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually i have and still eat some meats ,only because a veggi diet is expensive and i have to rely on whats cheap and what comes from the food bank.i would go vegan if i could afford it.
2007-07-27 23:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because I would see the horrible conditions in which the animals are kept and how they are slaughtered. I don't think I'd able to even look at meat after such a horrible ordeal like this.
2007-07-25 13:49:05 · answer #11 · answered by nobodyd 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋