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> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:22:03 -0000, "Ophelia"
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>>"Bruce" > wrote in message
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>>> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:37:59 -0500, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 2015-02-04 5:59 PM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> A shame everybody doesn't follow that principle. Not many people
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> eat meat then. Especially lamb eating women would be rare.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know why you pick on lamb eating women, IMO I would think men
>>>>> eat far more meat than women. I find I am eating less and less, time
>>>>> was when I loved a nice, very rare, large steak, now a small one or I
>>>>> can't finish it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I don't think it is so much the eating of lamb in particular but the
>>>>general attitude about killing and slaughtering. That used to be the
>>>>domain of the male of the species. The man would go out and hunt or
>>>>raise and slaughter the animals for meat. Some people like to distance
>>>>themselves from the process that produces the flesh that they like to
>>>>eat.
>>>
>>> Yes, if the meat was looking at people as they pick it up in the
>>> supermarket, looking really hurt that is, there would be many more
>>> vegetarians.
>>
>>Eldest granddaughter is in Hong Kong/Macau atm and she was telling us when
>>she went to market the chickens and fish are alive and they are killed to
>>order. She said the smell was indescribable and it wouldn't surprise me
>>if
>>she hasn't become a vegetarian. The people she was staying was staying
>>with at first seemed to live mostly on noodles. She has moved now so I
>>will
>>need to ask what she is eating now.
>
> Fish comes fresh like that too, swimming in the tank until you decide
> it's fate

Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with game
etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the field
and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
That I can cope with.



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"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with
> game
> etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the field
> and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
> That I can cope with.

We routinely killed fowl for eating when I was a kid, so it wouldn't bother
me, but I don't want to be killing pigs, etc.

Cheri

"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>> Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with
>> game
>> etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the field
>> and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
>> That I can cope with.
>
> We routinely killed fowl for eating when I was a kid, so it wouldn't
> bother me, but I don't want to be killing pigs, etc.

DH has no problem killing anything so I don't have to worry about it ...
thank goodness.

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"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>> Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with
>>> game
>>> etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the
>>> field
>>> and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
>>> That I can cope with.
>>
>> We routinely killed fowl for eating when I was a kid, so it wouldn't
>> bother me, but I don't want to be killing pigs, etc.
>
> DH has no problem killing anything so I don't have to worry about it ...
> thank goodness.

Actually, I would be better at it than dh since we did grow up on a ranch
and he's more squeamish about putting hands in guts etc., but he does clean
his fish. :-)

Cheri

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> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 19:55:24 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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> wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:22:03 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Bruce" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:37:59 -0500, Dave Smith
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On 2015-02-04 5:59 PM, wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A shame everybody doesn't follow that principle. Not many people
>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>> eat meat then. Especially lamb eating women would be rare.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't know why you pick on lamb eating women, IMO I would think
>>>>>>> men
>>>>>>> eat far more meat than women. I find I am eating less and less,
>>>>>>> time
>>>>>>> was when I loved a nice, very rare, large steak, now a small one or
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> can't finish it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I don't think it is so much the eating of lamb in particular but the
>>>>>>general attitude about killing and slaughtering. That used to be the
>>>>>>domain of the male of the species. The man would go out and hunt or
>>>>>>raise and slaughter the animals for meat. Some people like to
>>>>>>distance
>>>>>>themselves from the process that produces the flesh that they like to
>>>>>>eat.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, if the meat was looking at people as they pick it up in the
>>>>> supermarket, looking really hurt that is, there would be many more
>>>>> vegetarians.
>>>>
>>>>Eldest granddaughter is in Hong Kong/Macau atm and she was telling us
>>>>when
>>>>she went to market the chickens and fish are alive and they are killed
>>>>to
>>>>order. She said the smell was indescribable and it wouldn't surprise
>>>>me
>>>>if
>>>>she hasn't become a vegetarian. The people she was staying was staying
>>>>with at first seemed to live mostly on noodles. She has moved now so I
>>>>will
>>>>need to ask what she is eating now.
>>>
>>> Fish comes fresh like that too, swimming in the tank until you decide
>>> it's fate
>>
>>Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with
>>game
>>etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the field
>>and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
>>That I can cope with.
>
> Nope I couldn't. Kids always laughed at me because I loved to go
> fishing but didn't like it when I caught something
>
> Talking of bloody carcasses reminds me of the farmer next door in
> Spain. My kids were over there petting his caged rabbits and he asked
> which were their favourites. It lost in translation because an hour
> later he was at the kitchen door with three bloody carcasses curled in
> the bottom of a plastic bucket and the kids screaming their heads off
>

Not nice for those kids

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"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>>> Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with
>>>> game
>>>> etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the
>>>> field
>>>> and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
>>>> That I can cope with.
>>>
>>> We routinely killed fowl for eating when I was a kid, so it wouldn't
>>> bother me, but I don't want to be killing pigs, etc.
>>
>> DH has no problem killing anything so I don't have to worry about it ...
>> thank goodness.
>
> Actually, I would be better at it than dh since we did grow up on a ranch
> and he's more squeamish about putting hands in guts etc., but he does
> clean his fish. :-)

Ahh ... YOUR dh???? heh I was just about to offer mine to work with you as
a team <g>

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"Ophelia" wrote:

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>"Cheri" > wrote in message
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>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>> Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with
>>> game
>>> etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the field
>>> and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
>>> That I can cope with.
>>
>> We routinely killed fowl for eating when I was a kid, so it wouldn't
>> bother me, but I don't want to be killing pigs, etc.
>
> DH has no problem killing anything so I don't have to worry about it ...
>thank goodness.

You had better be good. hehe

"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" wrote:
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>>"Cheri" > wrote in message
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>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>>> Fish isn't so bad ... but would you kill a chicken? DH can, along with
>>>> game
>>>> etc he shoots. Fortunately for me, he skins and cleans them in the
>>>> field
>>>> and he brings me (very bloody) carcasses ready for washing and cooking.
>>>> That I can cope with.
>>>
>>> We routinely killed fowl for eating when I was a kid, so it wouldn't
>>> bother me, but I don't want to be killing pigs, etc.
>>
>> DH has no problem killing anything so I don't have to worry about it ...
>>thank goodness.
>
> You had better be good. hehe

PAH nae bother pal !!!


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"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> Ahh ... YOUR dh???? heh I was just about to offer mine to work with you
> as a team <g>

LOL