Posted by honeybee on 2004-07-24 15:22:36
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i like the point you brought up, xuli. i hope to sometime have the strength to partake in the cycle of catching, killing, and preparing the small amounts of meat i eat, because i feel i am copping out by eating fish but being too squeamish to kill them myself. it's no accident that the way a lot of supermarket meat is marketed uses packaging, marinades, and processing to make us forget that it came from a living creature. if there was a photo of a beautiful, big brown-eyed cow staring back at you on the package, wouldn't it be a little harder to buy and eat that burger?
now, with the prospect of chickens in my near future, i'm learning that part of the process of keeping laying hens is that we should occasionally slaughter them as they age (though i'm holding out for another option to have my eggs and not have to kill the hens...). and it's so daunting, because i can barely deal with cooking chicken, much less killing and cleaning them. i'd rather not eat chicken at all (which i rarely do now).
