On Jun 29, 10:22*pm, Fred > wrote:

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> > No, killing animals to eat them is not evidence of psychopathology.
>
> * * * * Why don't they show it on television? *Why don't they give people tours of
> the abattoirs? *Why do people prefer not to see that going on? *It's not
> something that most of us want to think about whether we eat meat or not. *
> Most people would rather go on eating their Big Macs and not think about
> where it came from or what had to be done to make it. *

Never bothered me. You see, I grew up on a farm and have seen animals
killed for food from early age on. I know precisely where my meat
comes from.

> If people had to
> actually go out and do their own killing, there's be a lot more vegetarians
> around.

I have not noticed that there were many vegetarians around when people
indeed did their own killing, either on their farms or in a hunter-
gatherer economy. So your argument does not match the facts.