I really think that people should experience killing their meat...& I totally dig the "Kill It, Cook It, Eat It" prog...
Animals used to have total respect... originally by hunters & later as domesticated / farmed animals... there was a connection & respect... even when farmed... you relied on your chickens to lay so you looked after them.... you wanted good meat / top dollar at market so again there was a mark of respect.
Nowadays we see meat as a pre-packed 'product' with no sense of connection of the animal it originally came from.
Intense farming has divested us of a concious & delivers guilt-free cellophane wrapped packages... at rock bottom prices. You should question WHY you get can a 99p chicken.
Even a few generations ago a chicken on Sunday was a major thing. Yet our "want it NOW" society demands meat on the table 7 days a week... same applies to sweets, chocolate etc.
As ever it's the livestock that suffers to deliver this low cost... same applies for choc & the 3rd world child labour that supplies the raw beans.
I have more respect for meat-eaters who choose to buy locally killed meat that has had a good & ethical rearing than veggies who buy intensely farmed eggs.
It's all about the standard of life prior to being killed... plus it tastes better
Anyway... I'm off for some Bernard Matthews turkey twizzlers... bootiful..
So true, i'm completely in the detached category when it comes to meat, although I'd feel guilty not buying free range eggs lol (makes no sense i know).
Had I have made the real raw connection with where meat comes from at a younger age, i'd likely be a veggie. I needed that plug-pulling moment, like one of my veggie friends had when seeing hundreds of chickens in tiny weeny cages covered in ther own shit on the back of a lorry. Obviously i've always known i'm eating a dead animal, but like you say, meat comes so far removed from where it started now, the real subconscious comprehension just isn't there - and so I somehow just ignore the facts. Turn a big blind eye :$ .
