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[yagathai]

I have been considering this myself.

My own approach is very similar -- if I don't kill an animal with my own two hands every now and then, I feel like I don't have an ethical right to eat meat. Unlike Zuckerberg, I don't have the luxury of running around killing my own meat, being as I work 9-5 in a distinctly non-slaughterhouse atmosphere, so it's more of a practical compromise. If I could do it... I think I would.

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[saltedpin.livejournal.com]

I don't think I can kill things -- which bothers me, because I don't then feel like I have the right to eat them -- but I just won't eat anything that came from an abbattoir, regardless of how it was rasied. It's either has to have been shot in the wild (pig and rabbit -- both of which need to be culled anyway because they cause such huge damage) or hand-killed in a non-mass slaughter way. My mum's neighbour has a small farm and he supplies us with bacon and sausage and things, so I feel less bad about that. My mum helped him kill a calf once -- she said she couldn't do it again but it made her feel better about eating meat, seeing what has to happen before it gets to her table.

With apologies to MP

[hyperiate.livejournal.com]

You just need to find a better place to work. Take this tour of my workplace for example.

The employees arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...