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Originally Posted by FMlex
I don't know about you Shawna, but my mama was shoving pork ribs and filet mignons down my throat ten days after I was born!
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So you're saying that your parents didn't feed you meat when you were a kid? Most babies start eating meat from around seven months, starting with chicken.
I grew up in a house where a lot of meat was eaten. I didn't have a choice when I was a kid because it was assumed eating meat was a healthy part of your diet and dinner always had meat at its centre. When I decided to stop my mum was actually really worried about it, as were other people and that continues to this day. That's all I was saying. I'm not attacking anyone because they choose to eat meat.
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Originally Posted by FMlex
In the case of household animals, such as dogs or cats, I believe they're here to be our companions for as long as they live (or we live -- by the way, Old Yeller should be required viewing for any young kid who owns a dog). So we don't eat them. (At least in this part of the world.)
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Well, even as your post suggests, it sounds to me as if it's an entirely cultural thing don't you think?
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Originally Posted by jannieC
Right. The people in my life are supportive and not worried about what I am eating. I noticed it more several years ago. The best was when I used to smoke, people would say, "but you're a vegetarian!"  Not sure how the two are related.  |
I always get stuff like that. I don't understand at all why smoking is related, I guess they must think it's entirely a health thing to give up meat, but for me it's a variety of different reasons.