Ok so last Sat night I worked as a dishy in a restaurant to help out a friend & had a little freak out cos I could see & smell raw & cooked meat I had to wash the blood filled containers & just swore never again!!!!
Do any vegans here cook or work with meat? And do u feel ok about it?
I don't cook or work with meat like you asked but I do do the families dish washing each day and therefore do have to sometimes clean up the bloody mess. I always use a scraper with a long handle haha.
I've got no issues handling meat as long as i dont have to eat it or cook it for someone. Kind of gross but im fine with it as long as i don't think about it to much, even if it is pretty gross
I absolutely would not be ok with it. In the past I've had to do kitchen duty at my lacrosse club. I'd have to hand out the meaty meals and then do the washing up at the end of the night. This made me feel that ill. In the end I put up a full protest! I said it was against my beliefs and will not be doing it in the future. Needless to say, I now do bar duty
I was working at a wildlife sanctuary recently, in the feed shed, Out of all the work exp/volunteers I was the one cleaning bloody containers, divvying up fish for penguins, picking up day old male chicks to feed to the eagles etc, everyone else was too squeamish (but these people all eat chicken and fish!)
It doesn't freak me out in an animal setting.
Sitting around the dinner table whilst everyone tucks into roast makes me feel really uneasy and borderline emotional though.
I have my own fry pan in this house, and i never do the washing of the pans left by mother used to cook chops and steaks
My husband is omni, I won't cook for him.
My cat has diabetes and requires a special diet. We have experimented with this for sometime and found he responds better on a diet of cooked chicken and diabetic food with his insulin. I hate doing it but I will cut up and cook his chicken when I have to. Most of the time I make my husband do it but sometimes I just have to. My cat is 14, I have had him more than half my life. I will do what ever it takes to keep him healthy. I hate knowing by feeding him this diet I am supporting a horrid industry but I also don't have the heart to raise my own chooks simply for his diet either. We only buy free range meat, although I know still how bad the animals suffered, simply for my cat to survive.
Personally I don't care, I had been eating meat most of my life before going vegan. If I have a family BBQ I'm usually the designated chef and I cook and handle raw meat. I also use the same utensils with cooked meat and my vego stuff (obviously not raw as I don't cross contaminate). Morally, I see nothing wrong with preparing food for meat eaters. My advice is, like anything, if it makes you feel sick then don't do it.
i guess it is all a personal thing....i have dogs and would love to put them on a vegan diet but its too expensive at the moment....i have found a vegetarian dry food but still feed them meat....i HATE having to buy it and only buy small amounts for my meat eating partner....if he is home I will ask him to do any chopping up of a dead animal and cant buy offal anymore...i work as a nanny and have to handle meat almost everyday and i hate it but have to or i will lose my job so what does one do...bloody hard situation aint it...
When I worked at a wildlife sanctuary I had to cut up wallaby carcasses with a meat cleaver. I was totally vegan at the time, and at first I watched someone else do it, and thought I was going to be sick, but after a while I just ignored where it came from and what it was, and saw it solely as Devil and Quoll food. That didn't make getting your face splattered in blood and guts any more fun, but it helped me push my veganism to the side temporarily. I still hated it though, and I much preferred making the veg feeds over the meat feeds...
Funnily, I found it easier to deal with meat that still had the fur and guts, as opposed to the meat that didn't... I guess seeing the fur and body parts helped me in knowing that the animal wasn't cruelly farmed and killed for a selfish purpose. It was a wild wallaby, that was unfortunate enough to live on land where humans didn't want it.
I also had to put dead day-old chicks into the feeds, and meal worms. Washing up containers and seeing raw and cooked meat doesn't sound like it would be hard, based on experiencing the above.
What would upset me, though, is knowing that the animal was farmed and murdered just so its flesh could sit on a plate and be eaten by greedy people. The animals at the sanctuary needed the meat, but the people in the restaurant didn't!