Oh, chickens, forgive me! I ate one of you last night!

[iconoclastic cat]

I feel awful. I ate a chicken breast last night. Mrs. IconCat is 5.5 months pregnant, and has had an insatiable desire for chicken, despite being an ardent pro-animal-rights supporter and strict vegetarian for over 15 years. Pregnancy has done some strange things to her, this being one of them.

So, anyway, we had an organically-fed free range chicken last night. I fed some ducks today to atone for my transgression.

Sorry, chickens of the world!

[mr_hat]

1. WHICH chicken did you eat?!?

[iconoclastic cat]

4. The roasted one.

[ArkDem]

2. I like to chase it down with a glass of ice cold cat juice!

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Mmmm...cat juice...

[ChickMagic]

3. As long as you properly thanked it

for giving his life for your nourishment, the chicken forgives you. All they want is good treatment and to be recognized as the noble creatures they are - I'm sure of that even though it's kind of "woo woo".

[iconoclastic cat]

23. Well, no, but I did feed some ducks.

[tjdee]

5. That happened to me too, when I was pregnant I would have killed the

chicken myself, I wanted to eat it so badly. :(

I had been a vegetarian, but when I got pregnant I craved meat like some kind of freak, particularly chicken.

[iconoclastic cat]

24. Did you break down and eat it?

[tjdee]

29. Yup...and I still eat it.

I had only been a veg for about a year or so (I had planned on being one forever at that point)...and all of a sudden I *really* wanted meat. That actually should have been the sign I was pregnant, because it came out of nowhere.

Finally I just ate some. Because of laziness/tasted goodness/mild concern about getting enough protein/iron for my baby, I kept eating it.

Now she's just out of kindergarten and both of us eat meat, for a number of (not very good) reasons.

[SmokingJacket]

6. I craved canned boyardee spaghetti.

Even thinking of that stuff now makes me want to :puke:.

But I think you should listen to pregnancy cravings!

God knows what kind of nourishment my body thought it could get out of canned pasta, though.

[iconoclastic cat]

25. Yeah, we've been paying heed to the non-junk-food ones.

I, however, really have no excuse for eating any of it.

[LeftyMom]

7. What is up with the chicken craving during pregnancy?

When I was knocked up (this is back before I went veg, LeftyKid was about 10 mos when that happened) I had this intense craving for chicken enchiladas from a specific restaurant here in town, and if I didn't get them once a week or so, I was a flaming bitch.

[iconoclastic cat]

8. It'll get worse: Now Mrs. IconCat is craving Fluky's hot dogs!

:scared:

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. Well, as hot dogs go....

Fluky's is great!

:hi:

[iconoclastic cat]

12. Legendary, even!

I wish they made veggie dogs there. I bet they'd be great.

[tigereye]

20. body needs more proteins?

for me, it was eggs and potatoes. I wasn't a vegetarian anymore when I got pregnant.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. I ate some cow last night...

It wasn't mad, just pissed off.

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Here's your cow today:

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Never there!

It was a Moody burger. Great night for sitting out in the garden.

[LeftyMom]

15. on a related note

I just have to share my favorite flash animation ever
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cowswithguns.php

[iconoclastic cat]

18. Nice!

[iconoclastic cat]

16. You all must understand that Mrs. IconCat wanted to join ALF way back when

She had quite a few friends back in the dorms who had to be talked out of trying to liberate a few critters.

[Spinzonner]

22. You realize that she was probably talking about Gordon SHumway

and actually wanted to eat cats...

http://www.tvacres.com/aliens_puppets_alf.htm

[flvegan]

33. It's never too late to get started

in critter liberation. Just leave the incendiary devices alone.

[MissHoneychurch]

17. ...

[iconoclastic cat]

21. Calvin had the best snow sculptures ever.

Mrs. IconCat and I replicated the "accident scene" strip in our courtyard about 7 years ago.

[MissHoneychurch]

27. what was the reaction of the neighbors?

my favorite snow sculpture ones





C&H is just unbeatable.

[iconoclastic cat]

28. Nobody really commented on it.

We're the only ones who do any sort of December/October decorating.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. Dont' feel bad...

...I've been devouring smoked salmon, and I was trying to be a good vegetarian, too. But it's just SO DAMN GOOD I can't stop myself.

ed. ... and I'm not even pregnant.

[iconoclastic cat]

26. We still eat fish, eggs, and cheese (all organic/cage-free)

I suppose we're lacto/ovo/icthy vegetarians.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Thank you for the absolution.

:) I was feeling kind of guilty about the salmon, but what's worse? Smoking the fish and eating it, or letting it all get freezer-burned and go to waste? It's a no-brainer. And as for catching it in the first place? The fish was just going to spawn and die anyway, right? So who should eat it -- the bears and seagulls or us? I think us. (I argue with myself like this all the time...)

[Redstone]

31. If God hadn't meant for us to eat animals,

why did She make them out of meat?

Redstone

[iconoclastic cat]

32. Mmmm...sacrilicious!