Re:A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years
by Raf_ on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @06:31AM
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I can relate to this, except the last sentence. Taking advantage of the privilege of living in a society where meat alternatives and other sources of
protein are abundant, my delayed reaction to witnessing animal slaughter was to quit eating animal products altogether. The only real cost of it has been in dealing with colleagues in the UK, who enjoy questioning me about my dietary choices (at best), or persistently try to convince me to eat meat (at worst).
Re:A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years
by gambiting on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @09:29AM
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Maybe "appreciate" wasn't the right word here - I don't mean it in a way like "I appreciate how delicious this is" but "I appreciate that something had to die for me to eat this sausage".
I feel like a lot of people would benefit from knowing the cost behind meat production. I eat meat, but growing up on a farm in the "old days" when you could still do this soft of thing, I have witnessed a pig being killed by literally stabbing it in the neck through the artery and waiting until it bleeds out, and then gutting it within minutes after death while the flesh is still warm. The whole process made you very aware of what goes into making a sausage or a porkchop and appreciate it a lot more, and nowadays I get upset about wasting food in general.