I got into hunting specifically to bridge the gap - if I’m not willing to kill the animal myself, why am I ok eating the meat? Turns out I didn’t have any issues killing a couple deer, but sitting in a tree stand in the cold at 5am wasn’t quite my cup of tea.
We’re still trying to figure out when/how/what it will be like when we teach our kid where her food comes from.
At the moment she likes to eat beef and shout “THE COW LOLA” (not at the same time). going to be fun when we tie the two together.
My family raised cattle. Whenever I asked where the beef came from, my grandfather explained it was usually the older heifers, or the one that refused to obey the training (which usually happened as they got to 3 or 4 years). I had a very sad moment when I remembered one would nuzzle and lick my face and realized I hadn’t seen it in a year or so (I was 5 or 6).
“Wait, does chicken come from chickens?” said my daughter, “How did we know they would be so tasty?”
We had already told her beef and milk comes from cows, just hadn’t thought about pointing out the obvious one.
Took me long enough as a child to realise that chicken was chicken. I’m nervous for my kids turn…
I had to have this chat with my daughter as a surprise when she saw a pig on a spit. Couldnt duck it or deflect… had to handle it on the spot.
Handle it? By talking about how torturing and murdering animals is bad? Or just normalizing the violence and not worrying about it?
Then people wonder why our society is so shitty.
Maybe lying to your kids is indicative of a deeper problem (carnism).
Funny how English has
“Beef”, “Pork”, “Lamb”
when in some languages its just
[The Word for the Animal]+[The Word for “Meat”]
Literally, your language influences how you think.
My “native” languages are Cantonese and Mandarin and I always knew where the meat came from, like its literally in the word itself. [牛肉，豬肉，羊肉]
in french it’s just the name of the animal. Here’s a cow. eat cow. A pig ? eat pig.
Maybe it makes it easier to mentally link together the live animal and its meat.
In english it’s just the french word… beef, pork, etc… All french.
It’s because carninsts are extremely privileged to the point that they were french aristocracy in england.
Funny how English has
Those are not actually English words. “Pork” is from French at least. It’s a euphemism for the english “swine”. Meat is a luxury for the extremely privileged.
Youtube short on topic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/63DYCz9P1XM
TikTok outrages should never become news headlines.
But it’s the Daily Fail, so 🤷
That said - as if he could tell what each one would taste like.
Obviously he just picks the one he hates the most.
I agree with Tiktok, lamb is disgusting. It’s tough and chewy and slimy and made of dead baby
Sounds like you’re cooking it wrong. It feels disrespectful, but a lot of the people criticizing this probably rub their hands together and say, “yummy!” when they pull a burger out of a bag without thinking of the calf/cow it once was.
I’ve never cooked lamb, I only ate it as a kid. And the last time I spent My money on dead chordate, I was recovering from invasive surgery.
Gotcha. I was vegetarian for many years, so I get it. Cooking chicken actually smelled like heated roadkill to me, I had to leave the room.
I felt healthier without eating meat, actually. Now that I am back to eating meat, I respect where it comes from and intend to use every part of my harvests (having a dog helps too). I believe I owe it to the animal to acknowledge where what is on my plate comes from and to be as humane as possible.
yeah, it’s cool how our brain can rationalize an evil act, like paying for innocent beings to be slaughtered for our pleasure, by “respecting their sacrifice”, and occasionally hunting something “humanely” and then pretending like we only ever eat meat that came from an animal that never suffered for our meals
I bet when Jeff Bezos hunts people for sport on his private island, he takes a minute to respect their sacrifice. And if the first shot doesn’t kill them, he makes sure to shoot them in the head so they don’t suffer.
nonhuman animals aren’t people
That’s our choice, personhood is a social construct. Don’t be a realist, take personal responsibility for your worldview. Choose whether animals are people.
