On 2007-09-03 03:08:42 -0700, Terrorist Killer said:

It's logical that those animals we have most closely associated with
personally would be difficult to eat. I figured that was one of the
reasons for 4H--to torque children's brains where they could find a way
to understand loving an animal, and then killing it for dinner. I
assume this is not a normal relationship to domesticated animals and
foodstuffs and has to be learned, and learned before one's brain sets
up all the logical civilized associations.

I was raised on a farm, for part of my childhood. Having watched the
butchering and cleaning of animals from an early age, I seem to be
immune to any ill feelings regarding the process.

Thanks for bolstering my point.

When an animal is walking around mooing, I see them as a live animal
and treat them as well as possible. I certainly have never gone out of
my way to make their simple lives harder for them.

That's called a conscience and city boy/farm boy, christian/muslim, not
everybody has one.

When I dispatch an animal, it's with a means that is suitable for a
speedy death. Most of the larger animals, I shoot. The smaller are
decapitated and then hung to drain.

Living on a farm will toughen up almost everyone in regards to
slaughtering for food.

Please do not misinterpret and I mean absolutely no disrespect to you
or the culture from which you come: This is the way children are
toughened up to the way of contemporary primitive warfare in Cambodia
and Rwanda in order to whittle relatives and school friends into
kindling with a machete. More benign: this is also the way people
acquire tastes for menudo, natto and blodpudding. Some things you need
learn or acquiese to by the time your 7 or 8 if you're going to get
with the game.
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