We’re eating babies!

We who? You and your vagina?

I don't eat lamb nor veal.

Yeah...maybe check out how Veal is raised and slaughtered if you are upset about Lamb.

I like omelettes!

Those are un fertilized eggs. No rooster necessary.

That’s baa-d

Tell me Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?

They're so succulent and tender at that age.

I've had worse.

I don't eat lamb; I don't like it. Never have.

You mean a sheep’s lifespan is 12+ years. It doesn’t stay a cute little booger for very long.

Fellow omnivores, most of the chicken we eat is only 6-7 WEEKS old.

If you source it for humane treatment with some due diligence, you can take comfort that the animals whose flesh you eat lived a decent enough life (a brief one) followed by one very bad day.

Get in my belly!

I have tried to eat lamb a few times in my life over the years and it's just NASTY (to me). It's SO gamey and sharp-tasting. I really don't like it and the smell is not good either.

For perspective: I was raised on a farm/ranch with our own pigs, chickens, goats, horses and we slaughtered and ate all but the horses. FWIW, I also wasn't fond of the one time we had goat either. It was similarly objectionable, and I haven't sought to repeat that experience ever again.

They're eating the dogs! They're eating the lambs!

[Quote] Those are un fertilized eggs. No rooster necessary.

Excited to try human eggs

All the animals we eat are young. Their meat is more tender.

The chickens we eat are quite young too. A hen that’s a year old is only good for soup.

Too many of these facts about the industry It will make a vegetarian out of anybody. I personally cannot buy pork. I love the taste but the process of raising such a smart animal as they do is unacceptable. I will buy an animal that has been raised in a humane environment. The meat is sooo much better too.

Wait, what?

This is why I don’t eat meat or wear leather. Fuck that.

I guess they wouldn't even exist if not for the food chain. That would obviously be preferable to being born and made to suffer, then be slaughtered.

Yes having a horrid painful life is preferable to it being born at all

[quote]I personally cannot buy pork. I love the taste but the process of raising such a smart animal as they do is unacceptable.

If it's any consolation, pigs will eat one another. They know how good they taste.

R24 So will people. Whats your point?

R15, thank you Jaydee Mr 'Smokey Eye' we hear you Downunder. R7, It's nearly spring lambing here, where there will be loads of screaming in the paddocks

There is no humane way a pig, or cow for that matter, is killed. The "humane" way is a steel bolt to the brain for a cow, pigs are thrown into what amounts to a giant rotating razor blade system that skins and kills them at the same time. It is barbaric and that is just the killing part. They are then hung to drain all the blood from their bodies. If people saw what we did to process animals, we would all be vegetarians.

Yeah it's beyond brutal for the chickens too.

r29 Omg yes, where they check chicks if they are male or female, they chuck the males into a grinder then feed them to the chickens.

I ate horse meat when I was stationed in W. Germany. It was delicious!

I hope I didnt^^

R26 thanks, lambs are so fucking cute

Most meat that we eat are female animals. We eat female chickens, not roosters. Meat from male cows are usually castrated steers - otherwise it is female cows. Same with pigs - we don't eat boars usually, but we will eat castrated male pigs.

Most veal is young male cows. Lamb can be either, but tends to be more male.

Why? Because we often kill the males. Go to a chicken farm - the male chicks are ground up and killed quickly.

So when you say 'baby' sheep and cows make lamb and veal - there's a good reason for that. And many would have been castrated or killed anyway.

R34 here - this is what I was told - I'm a big city boy. But when you do go to farms, there's one or two bulls max. There's one rooster.

I'm sure someone can correct me if I'm wrong - but I do know we primarily eat female meat.

My god, I gagged reading this thread!

We had this lecture from the McCartneys 50 years ago.

Yes, lamb is delicious. Mutton is fucking awful.

OP is a Disney freak and needs to grow a pair.

6-8 months? Don't go to Italy OP around Easter. Suckling pig is always on the menu. Suckling, meaning it's still nursing. And not just lamb, but baby lamb.

After a certain point it’s not lamb, it’s mutton.

Dollface thread.

Lamb korma ...yum!

I wonder how old I am

Hens lay eggs.

The point of their eggs is more chickens.

We take their eggs. That is an abortion.

Then we cook and eat the embryos.

Tell that to anti-abortionists. They will say that God meant for us to have the chickens' eggs. If it were possible for the chickens to talk, you could ask them how they feel about this theft. If it were possible for chickens to use 'fowl language, you would get an earful.

My cat's food is pig (freeze-dried). Cats are obligate carnivores. While humans also evolved to eat meat, we can survive without it. Cats can't.

I had an indoor/outdoor cat as a child. She used to catch some of own prey. Mostly baby rabbits and birds. It wasn't a pleasant site. She wasn't exactly humane about it. I managed to rescue a few before they were fatally mauled. Nature can be quite harsh.

R45, egg-laying hens lay 4 to 6 eggs a week, all of them infertile and not useful for anything besides food ... unless they mated with a rooster or were artificially inseminated. Laying an egg every day, most days, is what the hens do.

I refused to eat lamb since I saw the most beautiful little creature resting against its mother in a field recently. They looked so peaceful and contented I don't want to contribute to their slaughter.

Veal!

Yum

^ wouldn't shout that loudly on this thread!!!

I

LOVE

VEAL.

It's SO gamey…

It would appear that you don’t know the meaning of the word. Venison is gamey…

R34. No one eats cow meat

Americans eat cattle.

R41 is Lizzie Borden…it’s very hot this morning here in Fall River

Who’s we OP? Speak for your own savage self.

Yeah, lamb meant isn't exactly "gamey"... but it's got those distinctly bile/acid qualities in its flavor. I can understand some people, even meat eaters, not liking it.

Well, if it makes you guys feel any better, sheep are usually kept for their wool.

Fleece murder!

R57, New Zealand would like a word.

The way we create veal is horrendous. Keep the lambs in pens stuck so they can’t move. Then kill them and chop off their sinewy meat

Lamb is delicious and if I have to eat human babies to avoid being a hypocrite then by god it’s worth the price.

Wait, I thought veal was calf meat, not lamb? (I've only had it once, but it didn't seem like lamb to me.)

We don't eat chicken embryos. The eggs are unfertilized.

I don’t eat them. I just wear their skin.

Some people do eat the embryonic chickens.

Correction: embryonic ducks.

R62, you’re right.

Yes, veal is the meat of calves, specifically young cattle, usually male dairy calves that are not kept for breeding. They are typically slaughtered at a young age, often between a few weeks and six months old, depending on the type of veal production.

What difference does it make if then live up until 12? They are slaughtered regardless.

It’s not like we’re going out and capturing wild lambs. These animals would not exist if not for agriculture. As long as they are treated humanely, I don’t have a problem.

I realize they often are not treated as well as they should be, but that’s a separate issue from whether it’s moral to kill them young.

Nature is just as brutal. Perhaps more so.

They’re the most succulent, and always try to hide behind their fathers!

I hate to say it but lamb chops have the best tasting fat. I learned this from Cherry BooneO’Neil’s book. I’m sure she didn’t mean it to be taken that way.

I killed a bunch of moth larvae today.

Those baby fuckers can die.

As R69 said, wild animals have a far worse time of it. Most wild animals (birds and mammals) do not survive infancy, being either eaten by predators or starving to death. Most will spend their days trying to find something to eat, and will end their lives being torn apart and eaten alive by a predator. Life is, indeed, short and brutish.

At least domesticated animals don't have to worry about food and predators, for the most part. This is not to say that we shouldn't make every effort to improve animal husbandry and humane slaughter techniques.

Read about Smithfield. They treat their hogs the worst.. so I don’t buy their stuff.

Well, lamb turns into mutton after one year, some will say two years. But the change is noticeable and many people don't like it.

^ think you'll find Lamb turns into hoggett which turns into mutton. 'Many people don't like it' isn't me. Love all sorts of sheep meat.

I had goat once. I thought it would be like lamb. I didn't like it at all. It might have been because the goat wasn't a kid. There was a lot of gristle. I couldn't even finish it.