# Who wants my meat? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849 "2012-02-14T20:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/1 "2012-02-14T20:44:10Z")
Not as dirty as it sounds. I recently became a vegetarian, and I have some meat in my freezer. It’s just standard stuff, some chicken breasts, ground beef, ham and fish. Who can I donate it to? The Food Bank and other such places usually just ask for non-perishables. So who wants my meat? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/2 "2012-02-14T22:00:59Z")
If your food bank doesn’t take perishables they probably have some suggestions about who does. I’d try a homeless shelter or soup kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diver)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/3 "2012-02-14T22:06:53Z")
We have tried to donate some home canned and frozen foods and no one in grand Junction CO could take them (including churches) because of health law restrictions (their words). Hopefully that would not be a problem for commercial foods but I wouldn’t count on it. I would sure try some homeless shelters or abused women’s shelters. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/4 "2012-02-14T22:10:55Z")
Meat will keep long enough in the freezer for you to come to your senses. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/5 "2012-02-15T00:06:40Z")
Or, if you don’t think vegetarianism is a mental illness, you could give it to your friends. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/6 "2012-02-15T00:15:31Z")
You could also try a senior center. Anytime anyone has anything they don’t want or can’t use, they take it up there (including perishables) and donate it. It’s always gone almost immediately and is for good use. Plus, you have the bonus of helping people on fixed incomes. Win-win. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/7 "2012-02-15T00:16:53Z")
Put it on Craigslist. It’ll be gone in minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/8 "2012-02-15T01:48:23Z")
Is there a reason why you can’t eat it? I am sure it wouldn’t hurt to eat it until it is gone (that is how my mother stopped smoking, she just stopped buying cigarettes and smoked what she already had until they were gone). If it is for animal ethics reasons, you already bought the meat so it isn’t like more animals will get killed. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/9 "2012-02-15T02:17:57Z")
It’s not for ethical reason, more for health than anything else. I could eat it, but I don’t want to. ---
**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/10 "2012-02-15T03:04:55Z")
I agree, check around the shelters. The local Rescue Missions welcomes left over stuff from church dinners. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/11 "2012-02-15T03:34:24Z")
> [@phall0106](#): > > Put it on Craigslist. It’ll be gone in minutes. Or Freecycle. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/12 "2012-02-15T04:06:51Z")
Hope that being veggie works out for you. I have been veggie for a few years myself, but I kind of gradually moved away from meat so didn’t have to give away a bunch of it. Animal shelters will often gladly accept donated hot dogs. They frequently use hot dogs to feed pills to sick animals. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/13 "2012-02-15T15:23:25Z")
My former husband used to work (as an accountant) for a meat processing plant, and employees had the opportunity to buy products for a big discount. I was vegetarian at the time, and though I cooked some of it for him and for events, we got a build-up. So I donated frozen meat it to the local Ronald McDonald House. Now we also have a Hope Lodge (American Red Cross housing for people from out of town undergoing cancer treatments), and they might also take this type donations. So try either the Ronald McDonald House, or Hope Lodge. (They also gratefully accept donations of personal products like razors and toothpaste, I know from experience.) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/14 "2012-02-15T15:45:22Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > It’s not for ethical reason, more for health than anything else. I could eat it, but I don’t want to. \*If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?\* ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-my-meat/612849/15 "2012-02-15T18:10:55Z")
I put it on Craigslist and it was gone in a flash! I never would have thought of it, thanks guys!