I’m commenting just before watching but indigenous cultures have a moment, a prayer or a thankful ritual of sorts after killing an animals and there’s a connection and a humility that comes from this I feel. Industrial farming and supermarkets too detach us all from the cycle of life and in the end we don’t even associate a burger with a dead animal. I live in the city and have all my life. The Irish suburbs. I told my sister I’m getting chickens for eggs and that once in a while I will kill one to eat and she was shocked: “you can’t do that you’d have to be raised that way on a farm to do that”. She has no problem eating chicken but the idea of killing a chicken shocked her. I believe in an amount of high quality meat in my diet and especially when it comes to a small domestic sized farm animals like a chicken they afford us an opportunity to reconnect. If you do eat meat I feel it is valuable to not lie about it. I’m not saying you HAVE to be the one who kills the animal just that if you can stomach doing so that it allows for an honest relationship with the meat that we do eat.
I’m commenting just before watching but indigenous cultures have a moment, a prayer or a thankful ritual of sorts after killing an animals and there’s a connection and a humility that comes from this I feel. Industrial farming and supermarkets too detach us all from the cycle of life and in the end we don’t even associate a burger with a dead animal. I live in the city and have all my life. The Irish suburbs. I told my sister I’m getting chickens for eggs and that once in a while I will kill one to eat and she was shocked: “you can’t do that you’d have to be raised that way on a farm to do that”. She has no problem eating chicken but the idea of killing a chicken shocked her. I believe in an amount of high quality meat in my diet and especially when it comes to a small domestic sized farm animals like a chicken they afford us an opportunity to reconnect. If you do eat meat I feel it is valuable to not lie about it. I’m not saying you HAVE to be the one who kills the animal just that if you can stomach doing so that it allows for an honest relationship with the meat that we do eat.