Have any of your turned vegan or vegetarian because of your bunny?

[Blue Bunny]

Ever since I have had my bun I am more inspired to become vegetarian. Something about loving a pet who some consider food just makes me not want to eat animals anymore. Just the thought of bunnies in a little pen or cage getting ready for slaughter churns my tummy 

[Vienna Blue in France]

Er, no is the answer.

I absolutely adore (nearly) every animal in every possible way but wouldn’t not eat meat because of it.
I would be much more ‘militant’ about the way meat animals are handled in their lives, the transport and their killing before stopping eating them. The dog trucks in China are just inexcusable and barbaric. I saw a video clip of one once and thought they were already slaughtered animals until I saw a few of them blink…

Strangely enough I’m not against other cultures eating what we call domestic creatures (we eat cow and pig and lamb), as long as they are not endangered, but animal welfare should be paramount….

Sorry, a single ‘no’ would have sufficed

[Mikey]

Im with Vienna. I love all animals and want a farm one day because of my love of animals, but thats not going to stop me from eating meat. I need it for my diet due to terrible anemia and allergy to all pills. As long as the animals are killed fast and humanely (such as a bullet or stab to the heart or brain stem), i am ok with it. Of course, the animal has to be free range as well and noninjected

[MoxieMeadows]

(I am a vegetarian) I didn’t really stop eating meat because of my rabbit, but I looked into how the animals are ACTUALLY treated and raised and slaughtered, and how NASTY it really is since most of the animals are sick and have infections. And I do not have the heart to raise my own meat, so I decided meat wasn’t for me! I’ve been a vegetarian for about 4 months.
I’m not quite “against” eating meat, as I’m not going to look down on people for eating meat (as some extremists do), but I believe if it’s possible, you should try it. Plus there’s lots of health benefits, if you do it properly and make sure you are still getting all the protein, vitamins and minerals etc.

[LittlePuffyTail]

I became vegetarian shortly after getting a bunny and I think it did play a part in it. I’ve always been a huge animal lover and interested in vegetarianism. I tried to go veg in high school but it didn’t take as it’s hard when your parents are cooking your meals.   I’ve been vegetarian for well over 10 years now. My husband and toddler are vegetarian too. I eat a lot of vegan meals and did hope to go completely vegan in the future.

I give my bunnies full credit for me opting to go cruelty-free product wise. I don’t use any products tested on animals or buy anything made with fur, leather or feathers.

[MoxieMeadows]

I have been doing much better at buying cruelty free stuff, and I do credit Moxie for that. It can be hard sometimes if you aren’t sure if the item is cruelty free or not though…

[MoxieMeadows]

I should probably add that I am only in highschool. It can be tricky, but it is totally possible.

[LBJ10]

Nope. I wouldn’t mind becoming a vegetarian, but it wouldn’t be because of my buns. It’s an environmental issue for me. But my husband is a meat and potatoes kind of guy, so… yeah, that’s not going to work very well.

I don’t talk about this much because I don’t want to upset people here. But I got over the whole “ick” factor a long time ago. It’s something that happens when you care for predators. And yes, I did prepare their food and it wasn’t hamburger.

[Q8bunny]

I was vegan for a couple of years and vegetarian for another 5 or so back in the day, but it affected my health quite severely – not for lack of a balanced diet and supplements, mind you.

Oddly, I’ve never gravitated towards meat. More often than not weeks can go by without my eating meat and I won’t even realize it.

Having said that, I have tried many kinds of meat throughout my life (including weird ones, like snake) and to this day my two favourites are still goat and Chewie’s cousins (I know… I’m a horrible mother).

BUT since having the furball, I’ve been having a hard time consciously eating red meat. I keep picturing faces on it. So when I DO happen to eat some meat, it’s usually chicken breast or fish filet. But usually I eat eggs or beans of some sort instead.

[Bam]

I haven’t gone vegetarian, but only yesterday a friend told me she has a friend who’s gone full vegan due to her 4 bunnies. So it can happen!

Like Q8, I can go without meat without even realizing it. I never eat pork because of the way pigs are kept. Swedish cattle is required by law to graze for at least 2-3 months/year – a law they want to change because it makes the meat more expensive. If they change that, no more beef for me.

Dairy is another question. That’d be the real challenge if they change the law about grazing.

[MoxieMeadows]

I wouldn’t really have an issue with eating meat if we could afford the local meat that have good lives, but now that I’ve been vegetarian, I feel no desire to start eating meat again, raised good or not…I’m with Q8, I can picture their big brown eyes. =/ Plus, pigs are one of my favorite animals, so I’ve never really liked pig meat anyway.

Really you can make a habit of anything, have it be eating meat or not eating meat. =)

Going vegan is pretty hard, considering the amount of products that contain eggs, dairy or honey. We have our own chickens, so I am not concerned about how they are treated when I eat their eggs. As for dairy products, I’m not a big milk drinker, but I do like cheese and ice cream!
Not a lot of people know I don’t eat meat, I don’t advertise it and it doesn’t come up. If someone offers me a burger or something, I’ll just decline…

[Vienna Blue in France]

They say that for something to become “a habit” it has to be done 19 times in a row (or 27 ? NO idea where I’m getting these figures from my little brain!) and then it becomes automatic….. to begin with it needs to be forced, or remembered and then it becomes a reflex… apparently.
Still can’t get up when the alarm trills in my earlug though….!!
Off to cinoche – ttfn !

[Muchelle]

Posted By Vienna Blue in France on 7/28/2016 3:41 PM

Er, no is the answer.

I absolutely adore (nearly) every animal in every possible way but wouldn’t not eat meat because of it.
I would be much more ‘militant’ about the way meat animals are handled in their lives, the transport and their killing before stopping eating them. The dog trucks in China are just inexcusable and barbaric. I saw a video clip of one once and thought they were already slaughtered animals until I saw a few of them blink…

Strangely enough I’m not against other cultures eating what we call domestic creatures (we eat cow and pig and lamb), as long as they are not endangered, but animal welfare should be paramount….

Sorry, a single ‘no’ would have sufficed

I agree with all of this!

But I have to admit that even if I love rabbit meat, I have stopped eating it… Here you can only buy whole rabbits at the supermarket and I just can’t stand to look at their bodies, especially after Kuro’s been half shaven after one of his surgeries and he looked half alive and half ready to bake =.= 
If there’s a rabbit dish at a family dinner I surely won’t refuse it, but I surely neither buy it anymore nor order it if I am eating at a restaurant. 

Lol about the domestic creatures thing, I’ve been insulted before cause in Italy we eat rabbit xD (we eat anything that moves, really…)

[tobyluv]

I have been a vegetarian for several years. I’m not sure that it’s due solely to having rabbits, but I was influenced to eliminate meat in my diet by the action and philosophy of the woman who runs the rabbit sanctuary where I volunteer. I’ve also gotten some good vegetarian recipes from her.

[Ava]

Nope.

[Odette]

I am a vegetarian and I’m sure having bunnies over most of life played a part. But, mostly I was uncomfortable with eating meat from a young age.

I have no problem with humane meat practices. I’ve tried to go back to eating meat several times, but its just not for me.

That said, I caught my mom feeding Odette chicken. Odette loves chicken. I did stop her, but only because I’m pretty sure bunnies don’t have the enzymes to process chicken. So strange from a rabbit who doesn’t like a carrot treat!

[Q8bunny]

Chewie loves meat of all kinds. If I let him, he would totally be an omnivore.

[Odette]

Posted By Q8bunny on 8/01/2016 1:23 PM

Chewie loves meat of all kinds. If I let him, he would totally be an omnivore.

Chewie and Odette are little food connoisseurs!

[vanessa]

Nope. I have become more educated about the different ways animals are cared for, fed, and slaughtered, partly because of the bunnies, and partly not. You won’t like this – but here goes. I first got bunnies to breed them for organically raised, humanely slaughtered food for my 2 border collies. After a year of “processing” organically fed and well cared for rabbits, I decided to end that endevour, and I spayed/neutered 4 bunnies and kept them as super spoiled fur-children. I have eaten rabbit. Meat is meat. But the experience of raising and processing (slaughtering) rabbits, did heighten my sensitivity to the way our meat is handled. It made it that much more personal. I did come to a point of deciding whether I wanted to be vegetarian or not, for ethical reasons. I started to feel guilty about taking animal lives. Even if they were slaughtered in the most humanely possible manor. But I deided that our teeth are those of omnivores, not herbivores. Just like pigs and monkeys. Therefore, I must always support better treatment of meat animals.

[LBJ10]

Vanessa – That I did not have to do, thankfully. Everything was always already dead when I received it. Although most of it was roadkill, I did feel a bit weird about the lab animals. It was something we had to order when roadkill was scarce, usually in the winter. There are a lot less rabbits, squirrels, and deer running around.

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