hyperb0rean:

Very well written. It won’t change the mind of anyone who is opposed to eating meat but it surely gives an idea of how it all fits into a grand design of Nature, a broad perspective of Life. I wonder if our ancestors ever had similar thoughts and I think they never pondered the “why”, because to them it was the one and only way of life. It was just natural to raise livestock and to slaughter animals to feed off them. I think they had an innocence, back then, that we lost in the industrial age, so it’s certainly good to try to come to terms with this reality of life and death, once again.
The majority of people in the West will never bother to think about the slaughter of animals because they don’t actually see the animal when they buy their meat. To them, meat is nothing but a product. It could come straight from some (intensive) meat farm, for all they care. All the process of raising animals for slaughtering them is removed from their sight and only if confronted with this reality they get sick to their stomach and want to become vegan instead. But this too is a denial of reality. This won’t “help” animals one bit. If you can’t stomach the butchering then you have to stop the mass consumption of meat that is getting out of hands, and make meat become a privilege that you can’t have every day. A privilege you should earn by your own hands, or at least by receiving it from the hands of those who keep, raise, and slaughter animals like we, organic/local farmers, do.

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