[QUOTE=jnp;2593810]There are moments in this modern world when I feel the fear that, despite all our scientific advances, we might not make it as a species. This generally causes me a bit of sorrow when I ponder all the beauty that humans have wrought.
Then I read posts like the OP’s and think, “Maybe the end of the human race isn’t the worst thing that could ever happen.”[/QUOTE]
Then some idiot quotes you while spraying faeces across the screen and reaffirms your hatred of mankind.
It is pretty tough raising an animal from birth, tending its needs then taking it and braking its kneck. In order effectivly manage thier care and make the slaughter as kind as possible it is important to have the animal relaxed and trusting around me, but I always feel extreemly guilty after the deed is done, and try to be as respectfull and ‘gentle’ as I can.
what I find abhorent, is the whole attitude of supermarket meat, where people dont give the animal they are eating a first let alone a second thought. There are kids in the school that my kids attend that dont know the connection between pigs and rashers. This I find obscene.
neigh means neeiigghh…great tag!
I’m going to head down to my local supermarket and pick up a nice tray of bunnypuppykitten/every cute animal sausages…
As long as you don’t make an emotional attachment to things, you can eat them up no worries. I just hope they legalize cannibalism.
[QUOTE=Volya;2593904]I’m going to head down to my local supermarket and pick up a nice tray of bunnypuppykitten/every cute animal sausages…
As long as you don’t make an emotional attachment to things, you can eat them up no worries. I just hope they legalize cannibalism.[/QUOTE]
The Noah’s Ark Sausage - contains two of every animal.
Or is that cheap-o canned hot dogs?
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2593927]The Noah’s Ark Sausage - contains two of every animal.
Or is that cheap-o canned hot dogs?[/QUOTE]
Nah mate, that’s two of every animals rectum haha.
I’ve slaughtered my own food. And I do see your point- and it’s way better to humanely raise your meat than to get it from those absolute horrors, factory farm (which we pretend to forget, often.)
I try as much as I can afford to get meat from animals who only had one bad day of their life- the last one.
Still think there’s a difference when they are pets though.
I hear you Ev.
I have a constant battle with the kids not to pet meat animals, or at least not get too attached. It always, ALWAYS leads to great wailing and gnashing of teeth.
SRSLY!
[QUOTE=doofaloofa;2594041]I hear you Ev.
I have a constant battle with the kids not to pet meat animals, or at least not get too attached. It always, ALWAYS leads to great wailing and gnashing of teeth.[/QUOTE]
Has there ever been one that you thought ‘Na. Can’t do it.’ with when the time has come?
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When Sirc finally posts the vid of his Kyokushin test, you will see it
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2594057]Has there ever been one that you thought ‘Na. Can’t do it.’ with when the time has come?[/QUOTE]
Given my rustic upbringing, I was given the honour of killing some rabbits one easter for my inlaws who just recently bought a hobby farm. At no point had I been informed that they were actually bunnies - with names. The looks I got coming back in from the barn.
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2594057]Has there ever been one that you thought ‘Na. Can’t do it.’ with when the time has come?[/QUOTE]
Some have been postponed, but death is enevitable if your good to eat
[QUOTE=KO’d N DOA;2594064]Given my rustic upbringing, I was given the honour of killing some rabbits one easter for my inlaws who just recently bought a hobby farm. At no point had I been informed that they were actually bunnies - with names. The looks I got coming back in from the barn.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the different views people hold about rabbits in the West (probably elsewhere too?) are really marked in their difference…
a) a pest/food/target practice
b) basically a child
Humans are a funny lot.
[QUOTE=doofaloofa;2594066]Some have been postponed, but death is enevitable if your good to eat[/QUOTE]
My nan grew up on a farm. She once told me about a cockerel that was saved. Basically because he was a mean little fucker who kept biting and chasing people and showing off. Moreso than they usually do with people.
Once remember my nan telling me that she chopped up a recently-dead chicken with scissors when she was little - because she wanted to see where the eggs came from. I was about 6 when she told me this - and I was utterly grossed out. Farm folk have a different perspective on life and death, I reckon.
[QUOTE=Evergrey;2594038]I’ve slaughtered my own food. And I do see your point- and it’s way better to humanely raise your meat than to get it from those absolute horrors, factory farm (which we pretend to forget, often.)
I try as much as I can afford to get meat from animals who only had one bad day of their life- the last one.
Still think there’s a difference when they are pets though.[/QUOTE]
Yes, there is a difference for sure. Livestock vs pet is a often subtle distinction, but it exists, otherwise I’d be a vegan.
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2594070]because she wanted to see where the eggs came from[/QUOTE]
Lol, I remember chilling in the girls’ school common room, our school split into single sex from 11-16 and the became mixed again from 17-18.
And this guy asked one of the girls if she ever checked her period for the eggs! I lol’d to the max, because I thought this guy was a massive douche and so rinsed him for thinking that eggs from an ovary were visible to the naked eye. Also that girls would check for them and keep count, lol.
Later that lunchtime he tried to convince me that during the second world war Churchill had tried to make Britain part of France. Yeh that’s right the France which was 50% controlled by Nazi germany and 50% controlled by a Nazi puppet state.
Fucker went on to study law at Cambridge, so there’s hope for all of us…
Heh, I remember a lad at my school (I guess that we were 14/15 or so) telling us that twins came about when the woman was double-penetrated by two guys who came inside her at the same time.
I wish that I’d been quick enough to ask him about how he thought quintuplets happened.
This was a kid who swore that he’d been cow tipping too.
The most memorable one from my time at school was when we were talking about UFOs and alien abductions and stuff in the dinner room one day and strange things people had supposedly seen in the sky, etc. - and one kid volunteered the statement that he’d heard Santa’s sleigh bells on Xmas Eve night and once thought that he saw the arse end of Santa leaving his bedroom.
The realization not so slowly dawned on us. He was 15 years old and no-one at home had ever told him that Santa wasn’t real (I guess that his parents were still keeping up the pretence of putting out cake, a glass of milk and a carrot for the reindeer). Of course, that was like a red rag to a bull for a bunch of kids and a bearpit of mockery soon formed around him.
He ended up running away in tears and was ripped on every day by multiple kids for literally months over that. Every Christmas time it was brought up again. I’m actually cringing for him now as I type this.
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2594145]
The realization not so slowly dawned on us. He was 15 years old and no-one at home had ever told him that Santa wasn’t real (I guess that his parents were still keeping up the pretence of putting out cake, a glass of milk and a carrot for the reindeer). Of course, that was like a red rag to a bull for a bunch of kids and a bearpit of mockery soon formed around him.
He ended up running away in tears and was ripped on every day by multiple kids for literally months over that. Every Christmas time it was brought up again. I’m actually cringing for him now as I type this.[/QUOTE]
Lol, nah, fuck him.
I was a lucky fuck and went to private school and we prided ourselves on the formative and change inducing qualities of [strike]bullying[/strike] character building. There was this one kid who was bullied into losing 2 stone because of constantly remixing his name from Waudby to Tub-de-by.
Although I think he got off better then Alsop who was remixed to Ass-slop.
Still I credit those years with my relatively quick wit and ability to remix a surname into something hurtful and offensive in a matter of seconds.
Vital skills, which I’m sure are worth every penny of my parent’s hard earned money, lol.
[QUOTE=judoka_uk;2594148]Lol, nah, fuck him.
I was a lucky fuck and went to private school and we prided ourselves on the formative and change inducing qualities of [strike]bullying[/strike] character building. There was this one kid who was bullied into losing 2 stone because of constantly remixing his name from Waudby to Tub-de-by.
Although I think he got off better then Alsop who was remixed to Ass-slop.
Still I credit those years with my relatively quick wit and ability to remix a surname into something hurtful and offensive in a matter of seconds.
Vital skills, which I’m sure are worth every penny of my parent’s hard earned money, lol.[/QUOTE]
There were two lads called David in my group of friends. People called them both ‘Gayvid’. Another kid whose surname was Ross. This became ‘Toss’. Pearson became ‘Piss on’.
Comprehensive school.
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2594151]People called them both ‘Gayvid’.[/QUOTE]
Beautiful. I met an English guy last year on the annual Belgrade Beer Fest. He said his name was Kalib or something, which in my drunken wisdom sounded a lot like Gay Lord, so I called him that. Keep in mind that I was far from elementary school at that point.
I also did break falls to impress teh ladiez.