Dilemma

[Katoo]

Throw away the freezer full of meat? Give it away?

My dilemma: I didn't plan to go completely vegan overnight, I was researching. I simply found I cannot eat it anymore.

If I throw the food away, then the poor animals will have died for absolutely nothing. If I give it away, I feel like I am not taking the stand I want to take.

Has this confronted anyone else?

I had thought I was going to go dairy/eggs vegetarian. Nope. Not after the research. Got a drawer full of cheese. Give it away? Toss it out?

Help.

[Sevenseas]

If I throw the food away, then the poor animals will have died for absolutely nothing.They died for absolutely nothing in the first place. Using their body parts as dinner isn't going to give any justification to their useless suffering and useless deaths after the fact. There is no way to make reasonable, no matter to how small an extent, something that was so unreasonable and unjust to begin with.

[Semicharmed]

Well... I dunno, but I'd think of it this way:

You, from here on out, are drastically reducing activities in your live that created a demand for animal products, right? Yay! That's awesome, and that's a big part of the whole point - reducing the demand for animal products.

The meat/cheese/etc. in your fridge COULD actually serve to reduce that demand a teeny bit more if you give it to an omnivore who would have, had you not given him/her food, just gone out and bought more of it for themselves.

Make sense?

[SomebodyElse]

If I give it away, I feel like I am not taking the stand I want to take.
I don't think giving it away waters down your stand. If you feel you must do something with it, even throwing it away will feed animals who raid trash, so it won't go to waste. I usually suggest feeding it to animals anyway, as a compromise, if you really don't want to throw it away or give it to humans.

[nomad888]

Plant a garden and use it as fertilizer :P

[Kiz]

Do you have any, or know of anyone, with obligate carnivores? Cats, certain birds? You could pass it onto them.

[Katoo]

Well, I packed it all up into a cooler and took it to my son's house where he delightedly accepted it.

I did it, because it gave me a chance to tell him and his family what we had decided to do and why. Maybe plant the seed of an idea in their head.

My granddaughters, 8 and 5 were very curious. We sat around talking about things we COULD eat.

"Onions!" Lucie, aged 5 would yell.
"Strawberries, spinach, potatoes", Eve, 8 would say.
"Onions!" shouted Lucie. About 5 different times.

So I guess the 5 year old suspects we are going to be eating an awful lot of onions.

We told the girls we'd take them to a raw vegan restaurant next Saturday. They seemed excited and curious at the idea. We looked at the menu online. Strawberry almond smoothie seems to be the item that most impressed them.

[beachbubbles]

Well, I packed it all up into a cooler and took it to my son's house where he delightedly accepted it.

I did it, because it gave me a chance to tell him and his family what we had decided to do and why. Maybe plant the seed of an idea in their head.

My granddaughters, 8 and 5 were very curious. We sat around talking about things we COULD eat.

"Onions!" Lucie, aged 5 would yell.
"Strawberries, spinach, potatoes", Eve, 8 would say.
"Onions!" shouted Lucie. About 5 different times.

So I guess the 5 year old suspects we are going to be eating an awful lot of onions.

We told the girls we'd take them to a raw vegan restaurant next Saturday. They seemed excited and curious at the idea. We looked at the menu online. Strawberry almond smoothie seems to be the item that most impressed them.

Wow, you handled it perfectly! That is awesome that your granddaughter are so interested.