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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

Codeine

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19. I was raised in a hunting family

Reply to Tobin S. (Original post)

Mon Jun 24, 2019, 10:14 PM

Jun 2019

who also raised rabbits for food. Slaughtering things was normal activity in our home; in fact my parents would often poach or hunt off-season game and slaughter it in the kitchen (!) so nobody would see that they had broken the law. Nothing like waking up and wandering out for breakfast only to see black plastic bags covering the floor and an antelope draining out into a bucket next to the dishwasher.

Those experiences taught me two lessons — one is that I never want to cause avoidable deaths for my food, and the other is that if it ever became necessary I am more than capable of killing and slaughtering an animal. Thankfully I do not foresee any such circumstance.

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If everyone had to slaughter critters for their meat, there would be a lot more vegetarians. [View all] Tobin S. Jun 2019 OP

really you could say the same of growing plants Kali Jun 2019 #1

If people had to make that choice, I'd think most of them would go with a garden. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #6

I doubt it. I think most people would resort to stealing whatever they could Kali Jun 2019 #11

You're assuming uncivilized conditions. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #13

actually, no I am not Kali Jun 2019 #14

My grandfather raised beef cattle. I've seen it all and I hate it. I'd raise dairy cows, but never hlthe2b Jun 2019 #2

Native Americans HONORED their kills..... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2019 #3

That's probably true radical noodle Jun 2019 #4

I'm not vegetarian or vegan moose65 Jun 2019 #5

True. So what? matt819 Jun 2019 #7

The point is that I think most people would be naturally inclined to eating a vegetarian diet. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #9

that is debateble but I see this is in a "protected" forum Kali Jun 2019 #10

Any sociologists or anthropologists here? matt819 Jun 2019 #12

I worked in a slaughterhouse for years captain queeg Jun 2019 #8

Yet in a way, raising and slaughtering your own is so much more humane. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #15

+1 2naSalit Jun 2019 #16

Once I acknowledged the animal cruelty involved, I could no longer eat meat... MLAA Jun 2019 #17

Isn't human physiology geared towards consuming plants? I thought our teeth were Karadeniz Jun 2019 #18

I was raised in a hunting family Codeine Jun 2019 #19