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A strong imagination does it for me. I used to love eating lamb, but in my teens my father took me to a friends house where I partook in slaughtering a lamb and
by y-c-o-m-b 8y ago
A strong imagination does it for me. I used to love eating lamb, but in my teens my father took me to a friends house where I partook in slaughtering a lamb and later eating it. Now I find eating lamb utterly disgusting. If I even smell lamb it reminds me of how the animal wailed around as it was dying and the smell of its intestines and skin as we butchered it.
Same idea with insects - when I picture someone eating insects, I get reminded of the smells, the sounds, and worst of all where they've been. Bees?! Ever seen a portable toilet in the summer when the doors are left cracked open and insects get into? Bees on human feces. No thanks.
- daenz 8y agoProps to you for experiencing how your food is made. Some people turn away from meat after that (like you did), some people are fine with it. Regardless of where you land, we shouldn't psychologically shield ourselves from the processes involved in getting food to the table. It's the one thing that sticks with me from the PETA and PETA-like movements: you should know how your food is created. If it makes you more empathetic, fine, and if it doesn't, also fine. We are omnivores after all.
- mLuby 8y agoWhy is denying ourselves a psychological shield a good idea?
- opportune 8y agoTypically because it helps you make decisions you morally disagree with by pretending the bad parts don’t exist. You can’t decide whether you are morally ok with how a product is produced without seeing how it’s produced: this applies to more than just food, e.g. sweatshops
- yesenadam 8y agoIt's not easy to answer this macabre question. To many people, it's more important not to slaughter animals like that, than that people feel ok about the ugly reality. To people who think human lives aren't the only ones that have some value, this question is grotesque. To me, at least - 'Why is feeling bad about needlessly slaughtering lambs a good idea?'.. I guess there's a utilitarian argument for taking a pill so we'd never feel bad about anything, if we could, though I'm not sure if we'd still be recognizably human. Well, maybe psychopaths are like that.
- y-c-o-m-b 8y agoHonestly I put in effort every couple of years or so to try lamb again. I made it through an entire sandwich on my last attempt, but it was tough.
- tradertef 8y agobees? I think you are confusing bees with flies. Bees are pretty clean insects.
- y-c-o-m-b 8y agoLots of flies obviously, but there are bees. Come to the Pacific Northwest anytime in mid-July through mid-August and go camping in the mountains. You will see bees on feces, guarantee it. There is a camping spot near the Kalama Horse Campground, the bees - wasps especially - LOVE landing on the horse poop on the trails.
- pvg 8y agoWasps aren't bees.
- y-c-o-m-b 8y agoI guess if you want to get Dwight Schrute on it, that's technically correct. In casual conversation, most people refer to hornets, yellow jackets, and wasps as "bees". Still relevant to the article as they're also a part of the insect cuisine: http://www.bugsfeed.com/eating_wasps_and_hornets_in_japan http://www.bugsfeed.com/eating_wasps_and_hornets_in_japan
- pvg 8y agoIt's bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica, not bears, bees! Anyway, I guess you and I know different people. To me, calling a wasp a bee is like calling a bee a fly. They look different, fly in different ways, bees don't hang around horse poop, aren't irritatingly aggressive, etc.
- pq0ak2nnd 8y agoAre you vegan now?
- y-c-o-m-b 8y agoNope, still eat meat. If I had to do the same thing to cows or pigs, i'm sure it would have the same effect. Hunger be damned.
- opportune 8y agoThe smell of a pig farm alone is probably enough
- kkhire 8y agogo to an animal sanctuary and see how beautiful the animals are in person. I promise you, if you transition to veganism you'll learn to love it. what a lot of people don't know is that your taste buds and perspective on food/sustenance completely changes as you remove more and more animal products from your diet.
- abdullahkhalids 8y agoI have slaughtered lambs a few times. I came away with a profound respect for the source of my food ever since. Eating meat does indeed has an effect on our ecosystem, and I think every meat eater should at least slaughter an animal once in their life. Vegans might overvalue animal life, but most meat eaters definitely undervalue animal life because they don't conceptualize where the food in the supermarket comes from.