That's ridiculous.

My mom, dad, and wife all grew up in the country and thus we exposed to butchering.

Me, not so much... but I will fight for your right to go hunting and raise you own food.

I'm a spoiled city boy and too squeamish to hunt/butcher, the worst thing I have seen growing up is roadkill.

I'm about to retire and thinking of getting a meat grinder and making my own hamburger and sausage from large cuts of beef/pork we can get a Sam's club because of the rumors of the junk they throw in the grinder.

When I was single I could go for 3-4 days without eating meat and not miss it at all, no judgment just not a big meat eater. Maybe because my mom was from Kansas so every dinner had to have meat/taters/veggies and a salad)

Of course I married a county girl so a meal without meat is difficult to get by her.

Vegans may not eat meat but they sure like the leathers seats in their Volvo.

Don't get me started.

We harvest a few deer a year (processed locally) and work with local farms for 1/4 to 1/2 a grass fed cow a year. Same for goats and hogs.

Rural area, easy to make the connection for non-industrial meat butchered where they are raised.

Chickens? I feed the local foxes.

Lots of meat drowned by planet floods this year.
Stock up. It's gonna get expensive.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-28/many-million-calves-lost-nebraska-beef-prices-escalate-dramatically-coming-months
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/queensland-flooding-up-to-half-a-million-cattle-dead-after-state-receives-three-years-worth-of-a4065316.html

[QUOTE=Seahawk;10413886]Vegans may not eat meat but they sure like the leathers seats in their Volvo.

Don't get me started.

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]Vegans that practice the lifestyle don't use leather.

Many that eat a plant based diet for health reasons are less concerned about leather in their Volvos. I'm a staunch conservative with a leathered up F150, a maxed out gun safe and 15,000 rounds of ammo who eats a plant based diet.

There are many levels in between. You can't lump us all together.

Really?

Shoes? Belts? Gloves? I love the debate: https://www.veggieboards.com/forum/60-vegan-support-forum/128555-can-you-vegan-wear-leather.html

https://www.vrg.org/nutshell/leather.php

Fertilizer for their plants? What else?

8 Unexpected Items That Contain Animal By-Products | TakePart

"The Lifestyle".

I apologize to the OP.

Jeez Mike - where do you get this stuff? Just who do you think I was referring to? Hint: it sure as hell wasn't the millions of hard working people who buy their food at the grocery store.

Perhaps I should have been more clear, so as not to unnecessarily drive you to getting your panties in such a bundle. My description Self righteous, haughty, arrogant, they look down their noses in disdain at those who accept this reality was a clear reference to those who, well, look down their noses at the rest of us and our lifestyle choices in disdain. It was a clear reference to the militant vegans and such who seem to believe they can go through life in such a way that nothing has to die to keep them alive. This was the group at whom I was directing my comments, not our average hard working folks who choose to shop for, rather than kill, their meat. I have nothing at all against them or their choices.

I thought that was pretty clearly implied. Guess not... :rolleyes:

My son is a vegan. Not his choice and he doesn't like it. But he found animal protein is an irritant to rheumatoid arthritis, which he has. His doctor recommended a vegan diet and he scoffed at the idea, but faced with the specter of taking all those drugs he gave it a try. It worked, which really pissed him off, but he has been animal protein and drug free for a year and is doing fine.
He likes his leather seats.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1554249589.jpg

My Dr is talking about a knee replacement due osteoarthritis...

Osteo, which I have in abundance, and rheumatoid are two different things. I've considered trying my son's diet, but damn I likes me some ribs now and then.

My buddy caught a small Thresher shark, about a 3' body minus the tail.
Bleeding bad I told him lets keep it, Chopped off the head then the tail tossed overboard. About 10 min later I grabbed some zip locks and started cutting 1 1/4" steaks and that thing kept worming till the last cut.

You can't lump vegans into one bucket. There are some that take it to extremes and others that are more relaxed about it. There are a lot of vegans that are pushy *******s and a lot of meat eaters that are pushy *******s. Some of us choose a WFPB diet as the healthiest option.

We have a friend that is vegetarian. We have had a couple get together where we had pizza delivered. For her we asked what would be OK and always got her a veggie pizza as was her choice. Then she went and ate the carnivore (local pizza place very meaty pizza) instead.

Wheat-free peanut butter diet?

Whole Food Plant Based

I would like to learn to hunt and clean a deer, but I'm not sure I could stand to spend a few days out in the wilderness with any of the veteran hunters I know personally. :D

And?

"Dear Penthouse Letters, you never believe what happened. Just the other day.."

Sorry to hear about that. Had he ever had Lyme disease by chance? Fro. What I've read (I am not a doctor) there's apparently a few bacteria (include the one underpinning Lyme) that can trigger animal protein allergies in humans. The good news is that they're often temporary, though it can take years to fully recover.