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Defensive omnivore bingo (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I'm glad I'm not that kind of omnivore.

I'll just straight up say I love the way meat tastes.

Also, arguments about what people eat and why almost never come up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Why do you like hurting animals? Are you a psychopath?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Raised meat animals and hunted for roughly half my life. Coming from that background, I absolutely do not like to see animals suffer. Quick and clean kills. Minimal pain.

Raised poultry for both meat and eggs. When the broilers were ready for slaughter, it was a quick chop of an axe and done.

I've shot several deer over the years. Most dropped dead right on the spot. Only one had to be shot a second time, and it sucked to do. But also overpopulation/starving/eaten alive is objectively worse.

All that said, I fucking LOATHE the modern meat industry. I try and get my meat and eggs from local co-ops or people I know. Locally raised and not in cramped sheds. The butcher is smaller and not just a streamlined kill chute. I try to avoid the big corporate food market when I can.

All that said, it's difficult to explain how I see an animal as food. I know it's a living, breathing thing, but also, it's being raised for food. That's its purpose. I love meat, the way it tastes, and will continue to eat it for the rest of my life.