Has the world gone a bit mad

kneemos wrote: »

Does One Born Every Minute carry a warning?

I don't think they have scenes of lambing in that.

Jake Acidic Stockholder wrote: »

I saw my father in law slaughter some sheep a few years back. Even my wife has never watched him do it. Can I claim for PTSD? I still see those poor sheep getting their throats cut!

I capture - feed - kill - then eat a few things, including wild rabbit. I have big BBQs in my garden in the summer too.

While holding a beef burger in one hand dripping in tasty fatty juices one of the friends asked about the rabbits I had. I explained the whole thing and they were horrified. Could not imagine how I could do such an "awful" thing.

Yet there they stood munching a burger with no knowledge of the history of it - whether the cow was born in captivity and farmed in one of those places where they live in a cage barely big enough to turn in or not. (As it happens I ethically source all my meat to the absolute best of my ability - but this friend did not know that at the time.

Yet they question capturing wild meat that at least has had a good life free in the wild.

I fear a lot of meat eaters - of which I am one so I have nothing against meat eating - work quite hard to stay entirely ignorant of what meat actually is - where it comes from - and what it entails.