To be fair, if you eat one animal, you can eat 'em all. I say this as a meat eater. People eat cow's stomachs and pigs feet and bull's testicles, you may as well throw a horse in there.
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Originally Posted by makedamnsure
I'm veggie.
In my opinion eating horse is no different to eating cow, pig etc.
I'm vegetarian and don't really see how eating any one animal is all that different from eating another either, even in regards to dogs and cats, people might consider them pets in certain cultures but others consider them food. However, I do appreciate that you want to know exactly what you're eating, I can imagine if I was eating something to then find out it wasn't veggie I'd be very upset.
Apparently Quorn has been doing well since the horse meat scandal broke and has reported a rise in sales since January, I suppose people are more trusting that there's definitely no horse in their products lol.
I'm vegetarian and don't really see how eating any one animal is all that different from eating another either, even in regards to dogs and cats, people might consider them pets in certain cultures but others consider them food. However, I do appreciate that you want to know exactly what you're eating, I can imagine if I was eating something to then find out it wasn't veggie I'd be very upset.
I agree with this. I have felt slightly smug being one of the only vegetarians among my family/friends but at the same time I'm a bit annoyed by the people who are flapping over it, when in my eyes meat is meat and if you can eat one then you can certainly eat another. That said, as has been mentioned I guess it's unnerving being lied to about what you're eating. Nonetheless, that's partially why I'm veggie in the first place.
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I also agree that eating horse is no different, ethically, to eating cow, deer, goat, pig, chicken, lamb etc.
Apart from taste :p
The French eat horse all the time.
I find the fuss amusing, and wouldn't be concerned if I'd eaten any. All animals get treated with various antibiotics, chemicals etc.
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that its heart may stand in the sun,
so must you know pain.
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I agree with many of the above, that horse is no different. Drives me crazy when people don't understand how fish/seafood is meat...
Even though I'm vegetarian I would totally eat meat again if I/someone I know raised and butchered it themselves. I also have no qualms, and basically support, my friends who eat organic, naturally raised, hormone free, local, naturally fed, happy animals. More power to them for supporting the happy and healthy meat industry :]
Same! Nothing more ridiculous than "I'm a vegetarian but I eat fish."
So you won't eat one living, breathing animal but you'll eat another?
Mmhmmm!! If they're going to do it they might as well get the word right. They aren't vegetarians, they're pescatarians. But I still think it's hypocritical. Better than my grandma though who keeps thinking I'll eat chicken, because somehow that's not an animal? O.o haha!
It's hypocritical because someone can't say they don't eat meat/animal and then eat a fish. I think that's why the word hypocrite was used. However, it largely depends on values as some people are pescetarian because of different reasons that aren't related to animal rights. I have genuinely considered being pescetarian for my health as I know fish is good for me but I couldn't bring myself to do it.
It does annoy me when I say that I am vegetarian and people ask if I eat fish!
^^ I used to eat fish, until my science teacher told me I wasn't a real vegetarian, so I gave that up too. I think it's more frustrating when people don't use the correct terms. There's nothing wrong with pescetarianism, but I can understand the frustration as I'm always asked things like "So do you eat chicken then?"
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world awaits in darkness for the light that is you.
I appreciate that, but I don't think it's hypocritical to say you're pescetarian, for the reasons you mentioned that people have all sorts of different reasons for not eating meat, but eating fish, which I distinguish in the terms of meat generally being known to be land animal flesh - rather than fish not being animal, if you get what I mean.
I don't think it's hypocritical to be pescatarian.
I personally think it's incorrect for a person to describe themselves as vegetarian when they eat fish/chicken as there is already a term for that, pescatarian/pollotarian. So I don't think there's a real need to say "I'm vegetarian but...", but that's just my personal opinion.
I don't think it's hypocritical to be pescatarian.
I personally think it's incorrect for a person to describe themselves as vegetarian when they eat fish/chicken as there is already a term for that, pescatarian/pollotarian. So I don't think there's a real need to say "I'm vegetarian but...", but that's just my personal opinion.
I agree with this. It's just about using the correct terminology really.
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world awaits in darkness for the light that is you.
I used to be pescetarian but described myself as vegetarian simply because not everyone knows what a pescetarian is and I ceeb to explain it to people!
I'm fine! Totally fine. I don't know why it's coming out all loud and squeaky, 'cause really, I'm fine!
