[Tina Ivčević Pušić]

I stopped eating meat around 15 years ago. I was around 12 at the time. Eating animals always seemed wrong to me, and by 12 years old I was old enough to voice this out (and my parents were supportive so I had no issues there).<div>

After I stopped, I never had the urge to eat meat again. I find the idea disturbing on many levers and my body is discussed by the smell of it. To me, seeing pieces of dead animals is sad and disturbing and I can’t even force myself to eat it.

Of course, I will never tell someone they shouldn’t be eating meat. This is how I feel and what is right for me, but everyone should think, feel and decide for themselves.

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[Tina Ivčević Pušić]

From what I understand in the books, there’s a choice of either creating a kin’s domain in nature or ‘cleaning up’ the city. What would you love to do more? Where does your heart lead you?

[Tina Ivčević Pušić]

I had similar dilemmas. We have a property and keep chickens, horses, dogs, cats. 🙂

We don’t keep milk animals as then you have the “what do we do with the baby” problem.

The chickens we have are only female which results in unfertilised eggs. I’m very happy to eat those. The chickens live until they die of old age.

My horses are only male. I own 2 geldings and a stallion and they all happily live together. The stallion is a breeding stallion for other people’s mares. The two geldings are not good enough for breeding so they are gelded as otherwise they would be very sexually frustrated.

The dogs and cats are spayed after we have the litters we want. We have one cat who is beautiful, cuddly and a good hunter. Everyone wanted her kittens. She had 3 litters before she was spayed. All her kittens found a home easily. Now we have a young cat who is a bit of a trouble maker. No one wants her kittens so she is getting spayed at 8 months old. We also have a young dog. Kind, trainable, beautiful and a perfect guard dog. We have people asking when she’s having puppies. The plan is that she has one litter and we keep one of the babies.

So here how we do it and I’m happy with it.

Regarding plants, I don’t feel they shouldn’t be eaten. I’m completely at peace with eating plants.