Daily Poll: Meat

[bigbaldben]

VOTE DAMMIT.

And don't forget - PETA is watching you.

[The Empire]

Very cautious around fish and mutton though...

[The Church of Satan]

I'm quite the carnivore, but I do try to have my fair share of veggies.
Fish is great too. I have a deep appreciation for seafood. I don't get the whole "I'm a vegetarian but I eat fish" thing. Fish are meat too.

[Delfos]

I'm quite the carnivore, but I do try to have my fair share of veggies.
Fish is great too. I have a deep appreciation for seafood. I don't get the whole "I'm a vegetarian but I eat fish" thing. Fish are meat too.

yeah that's BS

I love meat, I love fish, I love tomato w/ lettuce salads, I love tasty soups, I LOVE FOOD

[Allama]

Though I love to devour fish, bacon, and poultry (duck is the best), I do not enjoy the taste and/or texture of most meat. Beef is especially odious.

[Dyr Nasad]

I do eat poultry and some seafood. I don't eat other meat for cultural reasons

[Orristania]

Aspiring vegetarian

[Lindisfarne]

I like almost anything. The secret to taste is in preparation.
Since human beings biologically are omnivores, we need to eat a balanced diet of both different sorts of meat and vegetables. Since all these food comes from other living beings, I find it silly to pretend that some food are more OK to eat than others. Apart from fish and a few wild animals, most animal & vegitable food are purpously grown for humans, by humans, and would not exsist if they were not earmarked to be eaten by us.

[Delfos]

I do eat poultry and some seafood. I don't eat other meat for cultural reasons

I'm ok with the fact different parts of the world have different approaches to certain foods, like us south/western europeans eating snails or weird seafood looks completely nasty to others, but "cultural reasons" doesn't sound like a proper concept to me. A friend of mine has Jerusalem ascendancy (he doesn't say muslim but his mother is muslim) that says the same thing, doesn't eat this bc he "respects the education received from his "mother"(family)"...meh, and he's a narcissist, doesn't make any sense to me. I know I'm quite subversive to break any nationalistic or otherwise ethnocentric concepts but I don't know where this "cultural reasons" or "diaspora education" falls in or it's place in modern individualism concepts. Why exactly? Is it because your family's place of origin is very important to you? Are you the chosen people to never eat certain food for eternity? Wouldn't that be a religious thing rather than "cultural", or does it have more to do with "place of origin"?

[The Church of Satan]

I like almost anything. The secret to taste is in preparation.
Since human beings biologically are omnivores, we need to eat a balanced diet of both different sorts of meat and vegetables. Since all these food comes from other living beings, I find it silly to pretend that some food are more OK to eat than others. Apart from fish and a few wild animals, most animal & vegetable food are purposely grown for humans, by humans, and would not exist if they were not earmarked to be eaten by us.

THIS! SO MUCH THIS!

And even when a certain food source isn't made by mankind, such as many animals we derive meat from, the fact of the matter is that although we are the most capable species on this planet, I find it naive to so desperately set ourselves apart from other animals. To say that the other creatures of this planet are animals and we are not, is to say that we are different in every way, down to the last cell. We are but one of a multitude of animals that inhabit this planet, despite the fact that we are the dominant species. We, like any other animal, are part of the cycle of life. We eat other animals to survive, just as a tiger, lion or any other carnivorous/omnivorous creature.

[Dyr Nasad]

I do eat poultry and some seafood. I don't eat other meat for cultural reasons

I'm ok with the fact different parts of the world have different approaches to certain foods, like us south/western europeans eating snails or weird seafood looks completely nasty to others, but "cultural reasons" doesn't sound like a proper concept to me. A friend of mine has Jerusalem ascendancy (he doesn't say muslim but his mother is muslim) that says the same thing, doesn't eat this bc he "respects the education received from his "mother"(family)"...meh, and he's a narcissist, doesn't make any sense to me. I know I'm quite subversive to break any nationalistic or otherwise ethnocentric concepts but I don't know where this "cultural reasons" or "diaspora education" falls in or it's place in modern individualism concepts. Why exactly? Is it because your family's place of origin is very important to you? Are you the chosen people to never eat certain food for eternity? Wouldn't that be a religious thing rather than "cultural", or does it have more to do with "place of origin"?

I wished to answer the poll and provide an adequate explanation for consumers of this forum. I had not intended to explain my world view. If, for some unforeseen reason, I choose to change my approach to NS and explain such things, I'll be sure to let you know.

[Lindisfarne]

And even when a certain food source isn't made by mankind, such as many animals we derive meat from, the fact of the matter is that although we are the most capable species on this planet, I find it naive to so desperately set ourselves apart from other animals. To say that the other creatures of this planet are animals and we are not, is to say that we are different in every way, down to the last cell. We are but one of a multitude of animals that inhabit this planet, despite the fact that we are the dominant species. We, like any other animal, are part of the cycle of life. We eat other animals to survive, just as a tiger, lion or any other carnivorous/omnivorous creature.

YES! High five!