It's interesting to see how Mark Zuckerberg's personal challenge for this year, to kill all the animals that he's going to eat, as spread across the Internet.
As a confirmed meat eater and occasional killer of animals to eat (rabbits, grouse, deer) I thoroughly approve of the challenge.
A few years ago the BBC ran a series called 'Kill it, cook it, eat it'. Each week an audience was introduced to some live animals and able to see them be killed, butchered and then brought into the studio as pieces of meat. The meat (or substitute meat because the meat from the freshly killed animals had not be allowed to age) was cooked and served up. Members of the audience was interview through the process and I found it very interesting to see the different opinions. They ranged fronm vegitarians who were there to confirm their beliefs to avid meat eaters who were reconciled to the fact that animals died to provide meat. The most interesting group to me was made up of the people who wanted to keep the disconnect between the live animals and dead meat. It's into this disconnect that animal welfare falls.
Over the years I've got fussier about the quality of the meat I eat, pay more for it and hopefully am paying for beter quaility meat and animal care. A simple rule is that 'Happy Animals Taste Better!'.
As a confirmed meat eater and occasional killer of animals to eat (rabbits, grouse, deer) I thoroughly approve of the challenge.
A few years ago the BBC ran a series called 'Kill it, cook it, eat it'. Each week an audience was introduced to some live animals and able to see them be killed, butchered and then brought into the studio as pieces of meat. The meat (or substitute meat because the meat from the freshly killed animals had not be allowed to age) was cooked and served up. Members of the audience was interview through the process and I found it very interesting to see the different opinions. They ranged fronm vegitarians who were there to confirm their beliefs to avid meat eaters who were reconciled to the fact that animals died to provide meat. The most interesting group to me was made up of the people who wanted to keep the disconnect between the live animals and dead meat. It's into this disconnect that animal welfare falls.
Over the years I've got fussier about the quality of the meat I eat, pay more for it and hopefully am paying for beter quaility meat and animal care. A simple rule is that 'Happy Animals Taste Better!'.
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