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Originally Posted by tore
I like to think I'm a bit the same. The first years of my life were spent around a farm, my father taught me to fish and pick crabs, I've helped slaughter reindeer. I feel like I'm reasonably aware of what having meat in the stores entail in this country and while there are negatives, I'm overall for it. Vegetarianism hasn't really caught on in Norway yet (there's a reason for that too), but I've studied with vegetarians from Finland and Germany. It seems much more popular in those countries.
Something related which I really don't like is when people criticize hunters while eating their industry meat meals. At least an animal which has been hunted has had the privilege of living a natural life up until the point it got killed for better or worse and I'd take my chances with that over living the life of the average McDonald's burger pig.
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i totally hear ya, i've been elbows deep in guts before too, it's part of what it is. it's not like animals in nature sit around together and all have nice little tea parties when the evil humans aren't trying to mercilessly slaughter them.
i'm not foolish enough to try justifying past hunts that were completely unsustainable and destructive to the biodiversity of ecosystems. but at the same time, survival of the fittest IS a fundamental of nature. seems to me we're also part of nature and as such, we're likely going to need to kill to survive at some point regardless of who's hands end up bloodied.
as for all this meat talk... i'm gonna go cook some steak now
