• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I have butchered livestock

    I’m sorry you had to do that. It sounds traumatic.

    Animals, especially mammals, have complex inner lives, families, and friends. They experience emotion. They play.

    I don’t understand how people can look at that and be ok with killing it, and then not think the same thing about the stupider parts of humanity.

    I guess people are just less delicious or something. No idea how else it’s justified.

    • Soggy@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I just don’t see something intrinsically immoral with killing an animal for food. Circle of life and all that. I don’t think anything should suffer unduly so factory farms are a real problem, and there’s an arbitrary line of intelligence/sociality that decides whether an animal is close enough to “personhood” that other principles are involved for me, but taking from nature with reverence and respect does not preclude hunting in my opinion.

    • MonkRome@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Not exactly traumatic, but certainly not pleasant to look into somethings eyes and take it’s life. A lot of men pretend it’s a fun experience to be macho, but I think most people do not enjoy taking an animals life.

    • Steve@startrek.website
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      2 days ago

      If you start out raising an animal for food you accept that you will have to kill it or pay someone else to do it.