Chickens aren't majestic

[Food Lady]

BigBird, I get what your daughter means. She's like me; we're veg 'cause we don't like what goes on in the industrial slaughterhouses. But unlike the ridiculous SC in the OP, I'm not going to shout at the people behind the meat counter about it. I can't, nor do I want to control what other people do. If the guy doesn't like elk, he doesn't have to eat it. Also, chickens are smart and cultured. They can play piano and like public TV.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I'll eat just about any meat you put in front of me (organs and cheek/tongue, I ain't touching). I figure if the rabbit ate the veggies and I ate the rabbit then I'm eating veggies in spirit.

People taste like Spam.
Just saying.

[Seshat]

we don't like what goes on in the industrial slaughterhouses.

Some industrial slaughterhouses, some industrial farms - yeah, I don't like either of those. (Note the word 'some'. Some are fine.)


BTW: Kangaroo meat is also both healthy and delicious!

[Cazzi]

I suspect he'd soon change his attitude if it were ever a case of food being so short he had no choice but to eat elk or die

[EricKei]

I could never eat a horse as I grew up in Texas and ride, so I simply don't view them as a food animal.

Just as well ^_^ Eating "cheval" is perfectly legal in the US, it's just frowned upon. In some countries, it's apparently a delicacy (read: badly overpriced), despite the fact that said meat is dirt cheap to buy within the US, from what I've heard (specifically *because* it's considered a "not for humans food" (Horses are classified as Pet animals here, not food stock)). I don't think I could bring myself to try it, either.

As for the others -- I've not had the chance to try elk, but I wouldn't say no if it was offered ^_^

[Clover]

Kangaroo? That's one I've never tried-I might have to sometime, if I can find it. Sounds interesting.

If years of thousands of vegetarian protests and PETA and all this other crap hasn't stopped people from eating meat, what makes one guy think that yelling at random workers will change what people do or don't eat? You don't like something, don't eat it. I love sushi, and no amount of my mother or sister telling me raw fish is disgusting is going to make me stop eating it. Particularly since I'm highly deficient in Vitamin D and Iron, so my doctor told me to eat more high vitamin d-laden foods (like salmon! ) and red meats that are rich in iron, so my eating habits are doctor-approved! And elk is one of my favorites. Reindeer's not bad either. Mmmm, Rudolph...:3

[bhskittykatt]

I'm pretty sure you can domesticate elk. CW told me there's even an elk ranch locally. I haven't seen it, though. I don't go out to that part of the county. Nothing but elk ranches out there anyways. :P

I don't like venison. I've tried it, and just don't like it. I don't like pork chops, either, either (bacon is okay, though). And I cab sometimes be a little picky about knowing where the meat I do eat comes from. I'm not going to get bent out of shape if someone else wants to eat differently, though!

(Unless Hubs tries to serve me pork and pretend it's chicken...he tried it because he thought if I didn't know what it really was, I would like it, and I asked if the chicken was okay because it tasted funny and gross and I just couldn't eat it. He now officially recognizes that I really just don't like pork chops!)

[Clover]

Kitty, you can domesticate elk and train them to pull carts or sleds or whatever (it's a common thing around here to see elk or reindeer wearing jingle bell harnesses and such pulling carts and carriages around the holiday season), but then you can domesticate normal deer too. I've bottleraised a lot of orphaned whitetail deer fawns, and I still eat venison. Heck, I've bottleraised goats and cattle too, and I still eat goat meat and beef! So a lot of elk are considered domestic animals, it really depends on where they come from.

[Moirae]

Its just venison. Mind you, venison and buffalo are both too wild for me. And I can't bring myself to eat Ostrich.

I don't get why he gets so upset over deer when there are lots of them, but doesn't care about the endangered buffalo (which I fully think should be illegal to use for food).

[NateTheChops]

Also:
Who says chickens aren't majestic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzwk0wMqMMU

[Frantic Freddie]

I don't get why he gets so upset over deer when there are lots of them, but doesn't care about the endangered buffalo (which I fully think should be illegal to use for food).

Buffalo aren't endangered,they're raised for meat on farms all over the west.I have several pounds of ground buffalo in my freezer right now & there's several local restaurants that serve buffalo steaks.

[telecom_goddess]

I don't see the problem in eating elk, it's part of the food chain. And while I would never eat what I consider pets myself in some countries it's part of the food chain too.

I can't personally do the wild game thing though. I hate venison, haven't tried buffalo and don't really want to. Ostrich and Kangaroo I'm not dying to try either. But if others eat it then great. We are the higher life form, we are supposed to eat the lower life forms. That's the way it goes down to the insects.

[TowelKing]

Pff. What a moron. Elk are a kind of deer, so they fall under the classification of venison, and venison is certainly fine to eat. Now there are a few animals I won't eat, simply because of personal views-horse, cat, dog, veal, and bear among them-

Alright, I'm curious. Nothing against your beliefs, and I can see the other three...but why veal?

[zombiequeen]

Its just venison. Mind you, venison and buffalo are both too wild for me. And I can't bring myself to eat Ostrich.

I don't get why he gets so upset over deer when there are lots of them, but doesn't care about the endangered buffalo (which I fully think should be illegal to use for food).

The only "buffalo" sold around here is a hybrid cow-buffalo called a beefalo. They don't sell it as that, but whatever. My mum gets barbecue "buffalo" at the fair every year, she says it's heavy like venison, but tasty like beef.
I don't eat mammals whenever possible, I'll make a few, (Ham gravy, teriyaki beef or pork) exceptions on this. The people I live with now don't understand my reasoning, and they probably never will. Of course, I won't eat anything I recognize, or need to pick bones/veins out of because of my haemophobia and nervous stomach. I can't cook meat that bleeds for three weeks out of the month either. I guess I'm just odd.

[Frantic Freddie]

A common mis-perception I run into is that wild game is "gamey".That can happen if a hunter doesn't field-dress the animal properly and/or fails to get to a processor quickly. The buffalo I eat has been processed just like any other meat,also the elk I got from a friend.

Buffalo has a richer taste than beef & should be cooked no more than medium,it has no fat so it dries out quickly,same with venison.