4th Generation Atheist

On a related note, I know a Jewish guy who makes a point of having a bacon cheeseburger on every major religious holiday. He calls it his ceremonial meal.

He has the sort of pride one sees in someone doing something rebellious. I wonder if that's the pride-meat link? I've noticed I only get that way about eating meat when I'm around vegetarians of either the moral or the crunchy-left stripe; kind of a "goddamn it I'm going to do as I please, and you can't tell me what's best for me". Otherwise meat eating feels like a fairly neutral activity, though one I usually enjoy (questionable "meat", such as hockey-puck fast food hamburgers, being the exception).

Roland98

I hate bacon.

And my meat has to be thoroughly cooked. No mooing beef for me, thanks.

With those provisos, yes, I eat meat.

Hooboy !!

It takes a great deal of skill to stalk, kill, butcher and prepare a good piece of meat. The courage part varies, depending on what you are trying to put on the table. I also like to garden, but sadly...harvesting a mess of green beans or chard is simply not as satisfying. But they sure do go good with a steak.

Bad Kitty

Nope, I'm a vegetarian.

I do like meat, but I don't eat it because industrial farming practices are so terribly inhumane. I just can't get past how awfully we treat other species. It really is horrible.

4th Generation Atheist

Hm. I tend to be lazy and order it in restaurants. OTOH, I'm only "proud" like that in the circumstances I mention.

I can't say I like the industrial practices either, but I'm not risking another malnutrition illness over it; if I can't afford the special "play-nice" meats, I'll write letters.

Gawdawful

If you have a freezer and a handsome chunk of change, meat, even really good cuts of meat can be relatively inexpensive. I recently bought a side of beef, almost 300 pounds of meat, for $2.18 a pound, cut and shrink-wrapped. It was approximately half hamburger and half roasts and steaks, really, really good ribeyes and T-bones. I haven't even found the tenderloins yet, but they're down in the freezer somewhere. The steer was farm pasture raised, then fed grain the last five months of it's short life. Mmmmm, good, and cheaper than the boneless, skinless chicken breasts that I buy at Sam's Club, where, incidently I bought some farm raised catfish chunks for $1.89 a pound.


Warren

Postcard73

I've always eaten meat, though I have toyed with the idea of becoming a vegetarian for a long time. The problem is that I'm such a rotten cook that I'm afraid I would starve to death before I ever managed to create anything edible...

Adora

HAH. One of my best friends in HS was an Indian-Fijian (or is it Fijian-Indian?) and she had a hot-dog like, every other day. We used to rib her about it, but she didn't care.

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BigBlue2

I like liver. With fava beans. Washed down with a nice chianti.

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