Introducing...

[patdbunny]

I used to want a monkey until I had parrots. The only thing a monkey can do that a parrot can't is fling poo.

Love the thread transformation. Makes for interesting reading.

You guys are so full of personality.

[kaylayuh]

I used to want a monkey until I had parrots. The only thing a monkey can do that a parrot can't is fling poo.

I'm not so sure that a parrot can't do that. I've seen my birds get poop places where you wouldn't think it could go.

[zazanomore]

My dream is to play with a baby elephant. What would be cooler than that? Once, when I was little, at the zoo they let me feed the elephants. The elephant sneezed on me and I thought it was the most awesome thing in the world.

If you ever get the chance, cuddle with a baby goat. They are so sweet.

I would hate to have a monkey as a pet. Their big-ass teeth scare me to death, and I don't have the heart to remove them.

Update on the calves! They are settled in well now, and they are drinking their milk quite aggressively. Tonight when I went in to feed them, I found they took off all their hanging bottle buckets, and put them in their water container. They are too funny.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I'm willing to try any food that doesn't involve out and out torture (such as eating something that is still alive at the time) except large insects, I just have a mental block with that. Florida sized roaches are about the only thing that reduces me to hysterics, the thought of one on my plate is just not appetizing to put it mildly. I also tend to like my meat and fish raw when I can safely get it that way. I love squid -- properly prepared it is delicate and nutty and sweet and not like rubber. It is rarely properly prepared. Foie gras is lovely, but the production methods push my boundaries of okayness unfortunately.

I have no moral problem with killing animals for food, but I do strongly support humane husbandry, transport and slaughter. I think the quality of the life matters more than the fact that it ended on my plate. So I try to go for free range, grass fed, etc. where the source has been verified in some way. But I don't insist upon it. I reckon nature is red in tooth and claw and all life lives at the expense of other life to some extent, so I don't agonize over it. Although cooking lobsters always results in a combined rush of guilt and joy. Oddly, I don't feel that way about mussels and clams although I am equally murderer when I prepare them. I don't knowingly eat horse because I choose to have an irrational bias, I think it comes back to the playing with your food thing.

I would love to have all kinds of cute animals as pets, but I'm pretty much full up with 3 cats, a horse and 2 parrots and a husband. I grew up on "Born Free" and "Ring of Bright Water" but I can't really encourage the practice of keeping exotics as pets because it so often goes so wrong and the animal is usually the one that suffers. I think otters, meerkats, skunks and raccoons are adorable. But heck, parrots are pretty close to wild animal keeping anyway. Oh, I rode on an elephant once. As one of the few horseback riders there I thought it would be a piece of cake for me, but as I had no idea how to communicate with or influence the elephant, I pretty much hated every minute!

Gee this thread got ahead of me, I'm out of breath trying to keep up!

[zazanomore]

I actually enjoy eating insects. They have a lot less fat, and a lot more protien then eating meat. I think the world would be a lot greener if more people were open to eat it.

[GlassOnion]

I actually enjoy eating insects. They have a lot less fat, and a lot more protien then eating meat. I think the world would be a lot greener if more people were open to eat it.

Please tell me you're kidding.

Date dinner scenario

Boy: So, what did you have for lunch today?
Girl: Oh, nothing special- some roasted cockroaches and a spider-kabob.
...

[TheNzJessie]

HOW did I miss this thread? I now have many many things to say.

FIRST, Kayla, pork feet are DELICIOUS!
SECOND, Jessie, I absolutely cannot believe you've never had seafood.
I used to be a pescetarian, meaning I would only eat seafood as a source of meat. I plan on returning to it soon. You HAVE to try seafood..........

Now, what's wrong with playing with food? Animals need tender loving care too, they deserve to feel loved and be able to show affection. I know it's hard to kill it after.. but I think they still need the love and the attention while they're alive.

The biggest reason I hate this whole mainstream meat eating business is how huge factory farms shove animals into tiny metal cells, allowing little movement, while injecting them with awful hormones and offering crappy foods. I'm okay with humane methods of killing after the animals have lived happy lives.

oh the smell makes me gag =p so iv never eaten it. i find it hard even giving a small mount of fish to the cotton top tamerins at work when there are no insects.

[TheNzJessie]

I'm willing to try any food that doesn't involve out and out torture (such as eating something that is still alive at the time) except large insects, I just have a mental block with that. Florida sized roaches are about the only thing that reduces me to hysterics, the thought of one on my plate is just not appetizing to put it mildly. I also tend to like my meat and fish raw when I can safely get it that way. I love squid -- properly prepared it is delicate and nutty and sweet and not like rubber. It is rarely properly prepared. Foie gras is lovely, but the production methods push my boundaries of okayness unfortunately.

I have no moral problem with killing animals for food, but I do strongly support humane husbandry, transport and slaughter. I think the quality of the life matters more than the fact that it ended on my plate. So I try to go for free range, grass fed, etc. where the source has been verified in some way. But I don't insist upon it. I reckon nature is red in tooth and claw and all life lives at the expense of other life to some extent, so I don't agonize over it. Although cooking lobsters always results in a combined rush of guilt and joy. Oddly, I don't feel that way about mussels and clams although I am equally murderer when I prepare them. I don't knowingly eat horse because I choose to have an irrational bias, I think it comes back to the playing with your food thing.

I would love to have all kinds of cute animals as pets, but I'm pretty much full up with 3 cats, a horse and 2 parrots and a husband. I grew up on "Born Free" and "Ring of Bright Water" but I can't really encourage the practice of keeping exotics as pets because it so often goes so wrong and the animal is usually the one that suffers. I think otters, meerkats, skunks and raccoons are adorable. But heck, parrots are pretty close to wild animal keeping anyway. Oh, I rode on an elephant once. As one of the few horseback riders there I thought it would be a piece of cake for me, but as I had no idea how to communicate with or influence the elephant, I pretty much hated every minute!

Gee this thread got ahead of me, I'm out of breath trying to keep up!

oh otters are adorable, but vicious. of course unless you are tommy

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[patdbunny]

Astronauts may be eating worms in space:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... 13-02.html

[kaylayuh]

Just another reason not to be an astronaut.

Eating worms in space.
Drinking water made from urine.
Threat of space shuttle explosions.
Living in a tin can for months on end.

I'll stay on Earth.