My kids (3 and 2) are going a relatives house (they have a farm) and this relative believes there is nothing wrong with letting the kids watch the cows become dinner. I've never seen it in person before but where my husband came from, he as a child would kill a chicken for lunch.
I guess I feel like it will hurt them or severely traumatize them in some way to see this happen to an animal. I really need ya'lls opinion. Please.
2007-12-05 10:26:38 · 12 answers · asked by Hicktown girl66 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Thanks for your opinions guys.
No, its not a slaughter house, she does it herself in the field.
2007-12-05 10:39:29 · update #1
go with it.
we are so protected from the real world these days; we buy meat under clingfilm from a supermarket. that is wrong.
you have to have a link with where stuff really comes from.
i saw a bullfight when i was seven. it didn't damage me. i'm neither a screaming vegan nor a homicidal maniac. i'm glad i saw it for the first time when i was seven, you cope better.
if i'd seen it when i was twenty seven it might have damaged me...
2007-12-05 10:37:50 · answer #1 · answered by paul r 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lillyian is so right on. My husband is a vegetarian for health and Natural reasons. he still has a really hard time if I get into some of the ugly details of the animal products industry. He won't watch the videos and he will still make some excuses (like they kill animals quickly), but I know he's in denial because he doesn't want to feel the guilt that comes along with knowing that for all the years he contributed money to the pockets of the animal products industries he also contributed to those horrors. That's a pretty heavy burden that people have to come to terms with. I feel very confident that the VAST majority of people would not eat meat if they had to witness the killing of their meat animals every time they ate. They just wouldn't and that is a strong arguement for the fact that we are not MEANT to eat them. Seeing a cow get butchered doesn't make ANYONE salivate.
2016-04-07 11:42:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never seen any mammal slaughtered for food, although I did have the opportunity a few times. I don't know if I can handle it, I'm a real animal lover and lately I have also been feeling a bit guilty about eating meat.
Then again, when I was 12, the first real fish I caught was a nice bass. My friend and I had no idea what to do with it. So, assuming that what we saw in the cartoons was ok, we took a club (actually, a piece of firewood) to it and smacked it in the head. As soon as we hit the thing, I started crying like crazy.
I think that taught me resepect for what I eat. To this day, I always eat what is on my plate. I think its a real sin to waste food.
2007-12-05 10:37:15 · answer #3 · answered by 2007_Shelby_GT500 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the kill the animals in a humain way then it should be okay. But taking them to a slaughter house could be a bad thing. I have been hunting ever sense I was alittle girl and I was just tought that is was the nature of things
2007-12-05 10:35:03 · answer #4 · answered by Katie-Bear 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the above and when I was a child at that. If you let your children know how you feel about it the children likely will mimic your views. It is good for the kids to know where their food comes from and it will not traumatize them at all. Frankly at the ages of 3 and 2 they aren't even likely to remember it.
2007-12-05 10:35:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We spent every summer on grandpa's farm and saw everything be slaughtered for eating. My grandma would kill a fresh chicken whenever she was cooking one, she would just go grab one, pick up, break it's neck and chop the head off and bring it inside all in one fell swoop. Didn't phase us.
But after seeing chickens lay the eggs I went off eggs for years and my brother too, actually 40 years later he still won't eat eggs.
2007-12-05 10:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have killed rabbits to eat and my daughter watched when she was 6.
3 & 2 is aweful young.
My other daughter and a friend killed a chicken when they were 10, but it was a rooster that was chasing and pecking them. I made them pluck it so I could cook it.
Ask them if they could just wait a couple more years.
2007-12-05 10:35:28 · answer #7 · answered by Tigger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I want meat in my freezer, I go to my uncle's farm and do the deed and even butcher myself. That goes for Beef, Pork, and Poultry because I do not trust stores and it is superior to store bought meat.
I grew up doing this and I feel like I am normal. Just make sure they are O.K. with attending and do not force the issue on them if they are not.
2007-12-05 10:32:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am an avid hunter and i don't beleave there is anything wrong with children seeing animals die as long a they are done in a humane manner and the children are taught to respect animals as they are how humans survive.
2007-12-05 15:22:33 · answer #9 · answered by kooskiagirl7 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A trip to any slaughterhouse or a killing operation of any size would create a great many more vegans and vegiitarians
2007-12-05 10:30:51 · answer #10 · answered by Stephen C 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋