how can I get over feeling bad for chickens?!

Your mom is obviously a very compassionate person. :) In regards to you wanting to become a vegetarian, it's not as easy as "just do it" as some on here will suggest. It was a very slow transition for me personally, and that's how I recommend that you approach it as well. Maybe eat chicken until the New Year, and then transition to eating only fish for a few months. And just realize that you don't need chicken to survive and that your craving for it WILL eventually go away. Do some research on fasting. I probably wouldn't be a vegetarian today if I had never got into fasting. It made the transition for me a lot less stressful. Start implementing more vegetarian meals into your diet. Start with a couple or even just one meal a week for a month and then gradually increase your weekly meals. You can do this! Just take it easy on yourself in the process. Peace.

Hi, that was nice of you and your mom to do that.

I can completely relate to what your saying, I absolutely hate what happens to animals these days. I wish I could change it all, but unfortunately the best thing we can do is minimize the part we play in it.

If you're keen to stop eating meat then I think that's a great decision. What's holding you back? Going vegetarian may make you feel better about this since at least you'll know you're not contributing to it.

Hopefully as more and more people stop eating meat this horrible industry won't be as strong.
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Then don't eat it, i'll be honest i'm vegetarian & i'd still LIKE to eat the likes of spaghetti bolognase (ie minced meat) however i wouldn't for my ethical reasons.
ITs your choice, you can either ignore it & eat away which obviously i'd disagree with.
Or inform yourself & then make a decision which more than likely would be vegetarianism

greedy farmers still use battery farming, buy free range eggs, at least you will be doing something to help stop the cruelty.

I don't know where you are but in the UK you can order meat online from The Real Meat Company - their chickens are organic and 'properly' free range. The more people who stop eating the supermarket variety and start using humane sources, the more pressure is put on the farmers to farm more humanely, and kill the animal humanely at the end of its life.

There are also people who farm humanely on a small scale and sell direct to the public. Birds who live this way taste a lot stronger than the supermarket variety and so you eat a lot less.

You could keep chooks yourself so you know they are being well treated and killed in a stress free way - but would you be able to kill them? Also, keeping chickens humanely is not easy and requires a lot of work, including killing extra cockerels that are produced because if allowed to live the cockerels will kill one another, also killing any deformed chicks that are born.

You might like to discuss vegetarian options with your mom, with maybe a special humanely reared and killed chook for Christmas. Or even just start with one vege meal a week. Maybe that could be your day to cook? Try baked potatoes with coleslaw and grated cheese, quiche with either a broccoli or asparagus filling, cheese tomato and green and red pepper pizza, macaroni cheese, start looking through some recipe books and get some ideas.

Eat beef. One dead cow produces about 400 lbs of boneless beef. One dead chicken produces maybe three pounds of boneless meat. Eat more beef; fewer chickens will die.

bless you..it must be hard to see such a sad thing... i respect your feelings but don't let it get you down... go to McD's and have a chicken sandwich...sorry.

He wasn't saying "help me". He was saying "eat me".