> My wife ended up not wanting to eat goat, so I ate a fair bit of goat after that. ...and she learned never to name or play with the livestock. So treat the a

> My wife ended up not wanting to eat goat, so I ate a fair bit of goat after that. ...and she learned never to name or play with the livestock. So treat the animals like objects to make it easier to kill them? That also works for humans: https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Treblinka-Treatment-Animals-Holocaust/dp/1930051999 https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Treblinka-Treatment-Animals-H... > I had a dissociative event the first time I did this. Dissociation happens for a reason. Slaughterhouse workers get PTSD. > I think that killing and eating animals is fundamental to who we are (and I don't mean "we've evolved incisors"; I mean "the rituals and process are encoded in our minds". The hand shapes the tool and the tool shapes the hand). The same argument could have been made for cannibalism, but somehow we managed to get over that.