Vegetarians/ Vegans that cook meat

No I don't cook meat. Knowing that I'm handling and cooking the flesh of a creature who was forced to lose his life disturbs me too much. In fact now I won't even cook food unless it's completely vegan.

May I ask, what is an 'ovo-vegetarian'?

I don't eat any animal products (meat, dairy), except on occasion eggs. But my aunty raises her hens for personal supply and they are really well cared for.

well, since becoming vegan, i have cooked meat for a friend of mine. i mean, i turned a few sausages over with a pair of tongs, idk if this counts. either way, it's not something i enjoyed doing and isn't something i'd be keen to do again in a hurry.

I used to, but these days I have to get someone else to do it because it honestly makes me gag. I feel really sick. The last time, I cooked sausages and nearly threw up.

I have cooked fish for my b/f. I don't mind cooking fish as much, the other meats stink and make me want to vomit, and occasionally fish has that same effect on me, though not so often.

I handle - but not cook - raw meat for my cats. All three of them eat a 100% raw meat diet.

How do I justify this in my mind? I find it difficult. I would love for them to be on a vegan diet, but I have done the research, and I haven't yet found anything that proves to me conclusively that they will thrive on one. I believe cats are obligate carnivores, and thus I have no choice in the matter. They are entirely indoor cats (pretty much a necessity, since we live in a high-rise apartment complex in the Docklands), and I would prefer to prepare meat for them than have them go out and kill birds or other animals that are fast being extinct - although that isn't my only reason by far for making them indoor cats. I believe it it a different matter with dogs, and, if I had a dog, I would have a decent attempt at feeding it a vegan diet, at the very least.

Other than that, my house is completely meat-free. We do make an attempt to source meat that has lived a fairly good life, but at the end of the day, it's still dead flesh, and that comes with it its own ethical dilemmas. I find it difficult to handle myself, and I have been known to ask my partner to do it instead on more than one occasion.

I would never cook meat for any human, though. Ever. I don't think I could live with someone who consumes meat, either, now that I am independent, and haven't lived with a meat-eater since 2008.

be really careful giving cats only raw meat, they can develop a calcium deficiency. we rescued a kitten and the only thing we could get him to eat was raw mince. we didn't realize how bad it was for him until he couldn't walk and was mewing in pain. his bones barely showed up on the x-ray. he got better after we gave him lots of calcium and lots of VIP treatment and he is now the most spoiled cat we've ever known. so yeah, just make sure your cats are getting plenty of calcium in their diet if they're eating mostly raw meat.

I have a similar view to Maggie but including handling/buying, i will not and never will knowingly support any animal products cooked or not (if it was my pet it would either be vegan or a herbivore to begin with).

Their diet includes raw bones, so they're getting enough. Thank you for the tip, though, and it's something that people need to be aware of if they plan to do the same. My partner and I are very serious about our cat's diets, and we refrain from giving them commercial pet feed for that reason. My cats mean the world to me, so I am vigilant in making sure they're healthy. And they definitely are.

Are you saying you would never take care of an animal that consumed meat, even if it was a necessity? Or are you saying you believe all animals can be fed on a vegan diet?