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Thank you for writing this. If one is going to eat meat, this is how one should do it. I myself would not do this, and therefore (and for a few other tangentia
by nkoren 10y ago
Thank you for writing this. If one is going to eat meat, this is how one should do it.
I myself would not do this, and therefore (and for a few other tangential reasons), I'm a vegetarian. But I fully respect how you're living. If you're going to be a carnivore, BE a carnivore. Don't be under any illusions to the contrary.
You talk about having a dissociative experience, but it sounds like, on the whole, you're having a far more associative experience than most people. When I see people casually munching on cheap store-bought ham sandwiches, having no particular concept of what they're eating or how it got there -- and who would in fact recoil in horror if confronted with that reality -- then it seems to me like they are the ones who are being fundamentally dissociative. Not you.
Anyhow, ramble ramble, but from a person with a very different approach to life: respect.
- kazagistar 10y agoI don't think he was using the word that way. I interpreted "dissociation" as the more clinical and formally defined psychological term for a mental state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology)
- tjic 10y agoexactly
- tjic 10y agoFWIW, even though I choose to live an omnivorous life, I have the highest respect for vegetarians. I've met people who say "I enjoy meat, but I could never kill an animal". Fuck you. You kill animals every day by eating meat; you're just too squeamish to face up to the ethics of what you're doing. So, hats off to all the vegetarians out there. You reached an ethical conclusion and you do the hard work to live it. Mad respect.