my first thread: join me in abstaining from pork? - Page 4

Samvega · 05-10-2009, 01:33 PM

I raised a pig last year, didn't do anything to it I wouldn't have done to or eaten myself. Well, with the exception of putting a bullet in it's head. Anyway, I decided if I couldn't buy a baby, raise it up, treat it well and slaughter it myself I had no right eating pork. I felt like I needed to earn that right instead of just walking into a store and buying whatever all neat like in a package.

It turns out I had no troubles what so ever with any of that so I eat pork with a clear conscious now.

It's not something I wanna do again really but it also isn't something I would avoid. If I had a bigger family and enough wasted food to feed a pig I would keep one for that reason all the time.

Haphazard · 05-10-2009, 07:50 PM

I would recommend eating kosher meat if your want your animals slaughtered humanely, but you won't find kosher pork anywhere.

lane777 · 05-10-2009, 09:06 PM

I already abstain from pork for health reasons.

nozflubber · 05-10-2009, 10:07 PM

Oh plz, more estranged maxims from the alienated pseudo-moral vegan impulse .......

Tell me, those of you planning on dying someday - are you going to care when something consumes you, be it an animal, a crematory fire, a slury of worms or a colony of bacteria? Are you going to put up some big fuss as YOUR biomaterial gets renewed and reused?

You're damn right if you say you won't care, and a pig doesn't give 2 shits what you do with his body after you kill the poor bastard.

The whole moral problem is about their suffering as another legitimate lifeform, not the fact you eat their meat.

That being said, more pig for me the more that abstain, so keep that pig chow up, so i can chow down more pig.

Ivy · 05-10-2009, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Haphazard

I would recommend eating kosher meat if your want your animals slaughtered humanely, but you won't find kosher pork anywhere.

This is true, but if you buy from small local farms (try your farmer's market) you can be sure the pigs are treated much more humanely than those in a factory farm.

Lateralus · 05-10-2009, 11:02 PM

I like ham and bacon too much. No thanks.

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05-10-2009, 01:33 PM	#31 (permalink)
Samvega Buddhist Misanthrope Join Date: Dec 2007 Type: NeTi Posts: 636	I raised a pig last year, didn't do anything to it I wouldn't have done to or eaten myself. Well, with the exception of putting a bullet in it's head. Anyway, I decided if I couldn't buy a baby, raise it up, treat it well and slaughter it myself I had no right eating pork. I felt like I needed to earn that right instead of just walking into a store and buying whatever all neat like in a package. It turns out I had no troubles what so ever with any of that so I eat pork with a clear conscious now. It's not something I wanna do again really but it also isn't something I would avoid. If I had a bigger family and enough wasted food to feed a pig I would keep one for that reason all the time. __________________ samvega (sa"mvega): The oppressive sense of shock, dismay, and alienation that comes with realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life as it's normally lived; a chastening sense of one's own complacency and foolishness in having let oneself live so blindly; and an anxious sense of urgency in trying to find a way out of the meaningless cycle.

05-10-2009, 07:50 PM	#32 (permalink)
Haphazard In Bloom Join Date: Apr 2008 Type: COLD Posts: 4,829	I would recommend eating kosher meat if your want your animals slaughtered humanely, but you won't find kosher pork anywhere. __________________ -Carefully taking sips from the Fire Hose of Knowledge

05-10-2009, 09:06 PM	#33 (permalink)
lane777 internal overcast Join Date: Oct 2008 Type: INFJ Location: Canada Posts: 503	I already abstain from pork for health reasons. __________________ APS Profile Inclusion: e/w=1/0 (Melancholy Compulsive) Control: e/w=0/6 (Supine) Affection: e/w=4/0 (Phlegmatic Melancholy) To die would be an awfully big adventure. - Peter Pan

05-10-2009, 10:07 PM	#34 (permalink)
nozflubber DoubleplusUngoodNonperson Join Date: Mar 2008 Type: INTP Location: tampa Posts: 1,803	Oh plz, more estranged maxims from the alienated pseudo-moral vegan impulse ....... Tell me, those of you planning on dying someday - are you going to care when something consumes you, be it an animal, a crematory fire, a slury of worms or a colony of bacteria? Are you going to put up some big fuss as YOUR biomaterial gets renewed and reused? You're damn right if you say you won't care, and a pig doesn't give 2 shits what you do with his body after you kill the poor bastard. The whole moral problem is about their suffering as another legitimate lifeform, not the fact you eat their meat. That being said, more pig for me the more that abstain, so keep that pig chow up, so i can chow down more pig. __________________ The history of Youtube linking is a history of human temperament.

05-10-2009, 11:02 PM	#36 (permalink)
Lateralus Space Pope Join Date: May 2007 Type: ENTJ Posts: 3,389	I like ham and bacon too much. No thanks. __________________ It's all about me.

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