Yeah, I'd probably be a tantarian if I had to kill my own food.
Yeah, I'd probably be a tantarian if I had to kill my own food.
lol@ I'm "Chinese". We're barbarians (supposedly). So yes.
Also, yes I've killed, butchered and eaten animals before. It's a great experience and I think it could benefit a lot of people.
I've never killed my own food but I've assisted in the dressing and butchering process. Does it make me sad everytime? Yep. Is it still good? Yep. I could do it if I had enough practice for instant kills. I would be highly upset if I had to track a wounded animal.
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Did those people not understand how sausage is made? There is no magic way to turn a little piglet into sausage like that. I am also a little saddened by how inelegant the machine was made; one latch would have made the prank that much better. Perhaps some banging by the girl underneath as well?
I have killed and butchered animals for food. It is fine to know how to do it, but we live in a world where other people can and do specialize in such work. People who get upset about animal treatment get upset for one main reason: in a society where we have a specific body of workers who slaughter animals, most other people only interact with animals as pets and we tend to build relationships with our pets. These most other people thus have empathy for most other creatures because creatures are pets, right? When Balto the Dog comes in a collar and plays on the couch and Sally the Cow comes ground up in packages at the supermarket, it is easy to see where the ability to make fine distinctions have been blurred because there is no need; it is clear-cut by that point.
That was my first thought. Those people are retarded.Originally Posted by Lynx
In response to the thread topic: yes, though probably less because I'm super lazy.
For me the idea of having to hunt, kill and prepare my own food doesn't bother me. Also unlike Dan I reckon I could break a chicken's neck without too much of an issue. It's pretty disturbing at first because you know we haven't had to do this kind of thing before (well most of us, PG is a barbarian and Lekana is well, Lekana ;P) but once you've done it once you'll do it again if you want to carry on eating meat.
I know they're not chickens and we didn't eat them but once I threw a flint stone at 2 pigeons in a tree in my back yard because they were scaring my niece. The stone wasn't intended to hurt them just scare them. It hit a branch splitting the stone in to 2 pieces of razor sharp death. Due to the positioning of the birds on the branch above and the angles of trajectory, spin and random chance. I actually managed to kill both birds. One was near decapitated by the flint, the other took the flint to the chest, fell and I had to break it's neck to put it out of it's misery (it would have died a fair bit slower if I hadn't but died all the same) it didn't bother me like I thought it would to be blunt. I felt pretty "eww" about the idea for a minute or so before doing it but considering I had about a minute or 2 before my niece came out and saw what I had done I got over it pretty easily and put them the dead bodies over the fence in to the alleyway (I would've bothered binning them but there's foxes near my mom's and so our bins would only have gotten pulled across the street by them after the corpses, easier to just leave them out of sight for the damn animals)
I'm happy to outsource the killing and refinement of animal products.
I'm kinda disappointed I didn't get to have any deer burgers from one of my uncle's kills this year, though!
If there were absolutely no other way and if for some reason, other food supplies were, I could probably kill it if it were quick, but definitely not skin it. Skinning freaks me out.
Hmm, skinning is the part I'd actually most like to try, especially on a rabbit or something. Spoiler for those easily grossed outI hear it peels right off, almost like a wet sock.
I spoke to a cow once. Although it was pretty much a one-way conversation... I got the distinct impression she did not want me to kill and eat her.
Maybe I was wrong... she could have been an extreme manic-depressive and would have loved for me to begin the 'slaughtering' process. Either way, I'm pretty sure I couldn't bring myself to do it.
I prefer my cows pre-prepared... preferably on a seeded bun with cheese, BBQ sauce and a rasher of pig.
It pretty much does. There's a bit of a tug & resistance.
Spoiler for those easily grossed outI hear it peels right off, almost like a wet sock.
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Assuming I could easily actually get to a place where I could kill an animal, I would not have many problems killing it for food.
I grew up on a farm so I'm not exactly new to this whole seeing an animal getting killed deal. Going from that to doing it myself probably isn't too problematic.
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can you hear me in the void?
You are a disturbing individual.Hmm, skinning is the part I'd actually most like to try, especially on a rabbit or something. Spoiler for those easily grossed outI hear it peels right off, almost like a wet sock.
I try.
Well, if I can do it to humans I don't think I'd have any problem with animals.
Seriousness aside, what context is this in? Am I living my normal life, except if I want meat I have to hunt and kill it? Nah, can't be arsed. Meat isn't necessary for a human diet. If I was in the wild and I wasn't able to pop to Lidl to buy some red lentils, then yeah, no problem.
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