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Originally Posted by schola  Have you ever hunted or raised and killed your meat? As well, do you believe it's important to be involved with the production of your food both plant and animal? |
I have not hunted, raised or killed any meat that I've eaten. As a child, I saw a deer skinned and butchered after a family hunt and the only effect was that I would not eat any venison (although I must have been too young to make the connection to other meat).
I doubt that a majority of people (in the modern US) would be meat eaters if they were required to kill and butcher their own food. It's pretty disgusting.
I do believe it's important to be involved. I appreciate your recent posts on this issue because it's reminding me. For one, if I choose to continue eating meat, my goal is to get it from someone like your friend rather than unconsciously eating whatever is available at the supermarket (aka crap).
As we've moved away from being involved in the production of our food on a daily basis, our diets have grown worse and worse. Seems if we turned around and got back to the land we could reverse that as well.