@azer  
my school had a salad bar

@Background Pony #CE03  
You’re going to have to be dramatically more specific than that.

@Keith Mowz  

 
Aren’t you the clop loving user at the forum?

my headcanon is that human fluttershy is a vegetarian because she believes it is the right thing to do and it makes her feel more at one with nature.
 
my headcanon is that pony fluttershy sometimes eats meat because she believes it is the right thing to do and it makes her feel more at one with nature.

I wonder how peta react to this?

Meat

Fluttershy confirmed for omnivore.

@Keith Mowz
 
Eh. That’s not the reason why free range is a pointless label. Chickens do leave if they can and there’s stuff to actually eat outside. The issue is that you could have a chicken coop in a completely barren wasteland and, as long as you opened the door for 2 seconds, they’d be “free range.”
 
Just go to a local farm that does pasture feeding. You’ll see their animals grazing. Farm animals really only eat grain and soy when it’s the only thing available to them. Otherwise, they prefer grass.
 
So that’s why I buy my meat pasture fed and I ask how much of the chicken’s food is pasture (insects, grass, etc) and how much is supplemental. It’s pretty much impossible to get 100% pasture fed chickens, but at least 50% and soy-free is good. As for cows, lamb, etc? Well, pasture fed is pasture fed. Those animals can go with 100%.
 
For pigs, pasture fed is best, of course, and if they can’t be 100% pasture fed, then pasture fed with supplemental vegetation (most likely from a farm that does pigs and vegetables) is always a good choice, though adding meat would be better (pigs are, after all, omnivores).
 
Anyways, that’s just my rant about animal welfare and nutrition. Sorry about that.

@CocoaNut  
Well yeah. There’s certainly points against the way some people raise food animals, though they’re basically bred to willingly live that way at this point. “Free range” chickens typically never leave their enclosures even when the doors are opened to them.

@Keith Mowz
 
Not always true. Feed lots are terrible things.
 
One of the reasons I buy pasture fed (another being nutrition).
 
@Background Pony
 
I’ve made this argument myself. Aurochs are extinct; cows still survive.

@Background Pony  
We give them a higher quality of life than they would otherwise have, either being randomly killed and eaten out in the wild, or arguably not even existing because we wouldn’t be breeding them like we are. Cows especially get incredibly good living conditions, since they’re also used for milk and happy cows give better product.

Fluttershy: “Woot, meat!”

Plus pony Fluttershy did feed fish to her animals don’t forget.

I also love animals and helped a lot of injured and lost creatures. I still eat meat products. Ever thought about the idea that the species that we use as food benefit in an evolutionary sense? All of the animals we eat are wider spread and far greater in numbers as if they were a wild species. We spread them all over the planet.

Actually, the one on the bottom is a cheeseburger.
 
The one she’s grabbing looks plenty brown to me (at least the actual patty part does).

@soundtea  
Really? interesting…  
Well, I did go to a Catholic high school, *shudder* So, maybe that’s why they were exempt from this requirement.

dat faic

@azer  
I know at mine they were required to have a veggie alternative for school lunches. I think it started around 7-8 years back.

Huh, there were never any veggie options when I went to high school…

@PonyPon  
Oh yeah your right, the one hamburger at the bottoms brown while the one’s at the top are green.

Cow between bread, my fave.

Yeah, it’s veggie. There’s a real hamburger there, for comparison.

@Background Pony  
It could be a veggie burger.

Hmmm vegy burger.