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Meat and other animals : Comments

By Monika Merkes, published 7/12/2011

What makes one animal a pet and the other prey?

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In the early 70s I was at shepparton abattoirs when the Judis sheep got the chop by mistake, Every working day for years, this sheep led the others to the stunning box. The normal practice was to let the lead sheep through, she knew where the door was and the central lawn, but this day she demised. Within fifteen minutes all 500 workers new what had happened.
Posted by 579, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 12:42:29 PM
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What we eat is socialised into us basically unconsciously.

My kids could happily drink goats milk from goat farmer down the road, if not told it was goats milk. They didn't appear to notice any difference in taste, but would feel sick, if they discovered what they had drunk, & refuse any more.

When I was breeding cattle & horses, running in the same paddock together, I came to the conclusion that we should be eating horse. Apart from thoroughbreds, it was very obvious that 9 month old horses were better grown, plumper, & would be better eating than the same age cattle they were running with.

Although this was obviously the case, I very much doubt I could have eaten a chunk of horse. The beef delicious.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 12:52:04 PM
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Yes Hasbeen, the horses could live off much more marginal country too.

Another example of our strange prejudice is the idea that eating sheep is perfectly normal, but eating goats is weird, when they are virtually the same species.
Posted by Peter Hume, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 5:33:07 PM
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The Author lives on a different planet. The fact is some people may not like the idea of killing to eat. But most of us would kill if we needed to, in fact most citiy folk ave a parent or grand parent from a time when most people did in Australia. The Author should come out to the country where the real people live and see that it still happens. Or go to most no western countries and see everyone else do it.

The latte set in the inner cities realy have lost touch with the real world. Hell even a hindu lady that works with me has Aussie veggies ie KFC.
Posted by cornonacob, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 5:41:14 PM
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The consumtion of animals is growing at exponential rates - not just for food, but for the by-products: Fish bladders in the beer brewing process; meat fats in make-up; etc etc. It is not the eating of meat for survival needs that anyone need object to, it is the turning of meat into a consumer product that is only as valuable as its profit margin. There is no humane killing of an animal, once it is objectified and turned into an object for money making. This is not about a right to eat meat, this is about respect for life forms - and not reducing them to human- centric materialism.
Posted by Brian Kollin, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 5:54:06 PM
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gotta get rid of all those sheep who flacuate regularly causing the climate to change. How else are we going to save the planet.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 5:57:32 PM
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