• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    TikTok outrages should never become news headlines.

    But it’s the Daily Fail, so 🤷

    That said - as if he could tell what each one would taste like.

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    We’re still trying to figure out when/how/what it will be like when we teach our kid where her food comes from.

    At the moment she likes to eat beef and shout “THE COW LOLA” (not at the same time). going to be fun when we tie the two together.

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      “Wait, does chicken come from chickens?” said my daughter, “How did we know they would be so tasty?”

      We had already told her beef and milk comes from cows, just hadn’t thought about pointing out the obvious one.

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      My family raised cattle. Whenever I asked where the beef came from, my grandfather explained it was usually the older heifers, or the one that refused to obey the training (which usually happened as they got to 3 or 4 years). I had a very sad moment when I remembered one would nuzzle and lick my face and realized I hadn’t seen it in a year or so (I was 5 or 6).

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      How old is yours? Mine is nearly 4 and has figured it out. It helped that, when we went on vacation, the supermarket sold complete chicken with the head and feet still attached, and cow tongues and pork feet and things. We even pointed out a pig brain for him to look at. It also may have helped that is favourite food is snails, mussles, squid and small fish with their heads attached (fried anchovies, he calls them eye fishies). All pretty recognisable on a plate!

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        When i was a kid (4 or 5), we used to go to a fish market all the time. They had a tank with live squid in them and i swore i’d never eat them.

        We went to a restaurant and they had calamari. I LOVED it. My mom finally asked me if i knew what animal calamari was and i didn’t know.

        She said “squid”. I stopped for about 5 seconds and then stuffed another few in my mouth…haha.

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        you must be doing a great job with their nutrition. Mine’s 2 1/2 , so we’re just about arriving at full sentences, so not quite yet :)

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          Eh, not really. We have only very recently cracked the code to getting him to eat any veggies aside from cucumber. Before that he would usually just eat meat, fish, potatoes and rice. Anything green would lead to drama. We showed him Popeye and how the spinach made him strong. Now, anytime he eats his veg he gets to “pick me up” and throw me on the couch. It’s been three weeks and he still likes doing it so, fingers crossed! 😄

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            Good to know you guys are still adapting,ours generally eats most stuff but sometimes she hesitates with shredded meat and that makes that particular mealtime forever, but she eats her food.

            Also there are some things she obviously prefers like crackers.

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      I had to have this chat with my daughter as a surprise when she saw a pig on a spit. Couldnt duck it or deflect… had to handle it on the spot.

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        Handle it? By talking about how torturing and murdering animals is bad? Or just normalizing the violence and not worrying about it?

        Then people wonder why our society is so shitty.

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        Hey man, I was really looking forward to your genuine experiences raising children, please don’t forget to share your anecdotes here so we can learn to become better parents with your help.

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        wow, very interesting. what was it like raising your kids as vegans?

        EDIT: How many kids do you have? Did you raise them all as vegans?

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      Ikr? All those lambs grow up in paradise, are being well cared for and can cuddle with their friends all day! Sure, at some point they’ll go to the butcher, but it’s all taken care of, they barely feel thing, they’re being murdered humanely after all!

      It all falls apart if someone tells them :O

  • Funny how English has

    “Beef”, “Pork”, “Lamb”

    when in some languages its just

    [The Word for the Animal]+[The Word for “Meat”]

    Literally, your language influences how you think.

    My “native” languages are Cantonese and Mandarin and I always knew where the meat came from, like its literally in the word itself. [牛肉,豬肉,羊肉]

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    Yeah outrageous! We have the animals transported, killed, slaughtered and packed behind closed doors so no one buying meat would have to feel guilty. This way the product has no affiliation to a living animal. Why would he do this, now Gen Z/A might think meat comes from animals. This will cost the meat industry money so he might end up with a horse’s head in his bed.

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    Well, I kinda get it. We can tell kids how babies are made, but we don’t have to go into certain details or say “Sorry Timmy, Mommy and Daddy are going to go try to make a baby sibling for you now!”

    There’s also the perspective that we should value animal lives and appreciate that we are choosing to sacrifice them for our privilege of enjoying their meat.

    But yeah, this is pretty silly “outrage”.

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      The average persons outrage can fuck right off on this one.

      This is the reality of it, if this behavior upsets you go vegan. Because the only difference between the one he picked and the ones he didnt is probably a few extra days before they were processed NOT for a celebrity chef.

      When I eat meat I know where it comes from, I’m not going vegan but you DO NOT WASTE ANIMAL PROTEIN in my house, partly cause of this and partly because its expensive as fuck.

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        To be fair, I don’t think the “average person” is to blame. Some people are just more sheltered or “eyes-closed” than others.

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      Are you really comparing sex to torturing and murdering animals?

      Personally that’s not how I do it, but I understand the society that I live in.

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        I’d like to think you were just going for a zinger and aren’t serious. But if you would like, I could explain what was going on in my previous comment.

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    Headlines often frame moments for shock, but context usually tells a much fuller story than a single clip or quote.

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    Is he the one who is slaughtering what he picks? Because making a show of it and having someone else kill it isn’t so much better than a bunch of tweens pouting on social media. The tweens can at least claim ignorance