(May 15, 2013 at 11:56 am)Minimalist Wrote:Right, but I'm talking about today. I'm not going to argue with someone who raises, slaughters and guts his own dinner, they are obviously okay with what is happening and what it entails. However I have the sneaking suspicion that the vast majority of people would find the things that are going on in the factory farms and mass-slaughterhouses of today quite repulsive indeed. That is why the process is so well hidden and only people who can't get any other job would do this work.Quote:Don't compare "killing" an apple to killing a pig, the former we can do in the comfort of our living room, the other is something so repulsive and contrary to what we feel is right, our innate ethics, that we hide the act away behind fences and walls and pay other people to do it for us and to print pretty pictures on the packaging to never remind us of what was necessary for our pitiful few minutes of taste.
Actually a rather recent phenomena and only in the industrialized world. Not all that long ago slaughtering animals was a family affair conducted right on the farm. You need a little perspective on history.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
