#Also my Real ethical conundrum is that while I've long felt that as a meat-eater I should be prepared to do my own butchery | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

screambirdscreaming · 3 months ago

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Something funny on the discourse axis of "is it ethical to kill animals for food" / "can't you just eat vegetables," is that few things in this world make a person so strongly feel the emotion of "wow I could eat that animal in particular," as trying to grow vegetables and having them be eaten by a varmint*

*generally I don't approve of categorizing animals as pests or vermin. Like as a concept I think that leads quickly to bad places in terms of how you relate to your local ecology. And generally to resolve a conflict of this sort with an animal you probably have to change how you're relating to the local ecology (see: integrated pest management). BUT that being said. Sometimes you make eye contact with a rabbit in your garden,, after bemoaning the nipped off remnants of your soon-to-be-ripening vegetables,,,

#quite frankly the rabbit in question would not be worth the effort #by the time you got it cleaned there'd hardly be two bites of meat on it #Also my Real ethical conundrum is that while I've long felt that as a meat-eater I should be prepared to do my own butchery #I've always been too squeamish to learn any of it #And I do feel like that squeamishness is a bit of a hypocrisy.#Also the vegetables I've been Most peeved to loose have been the tomatoes (just as they start to ripen!!)#and I think that may actually be rats :[#Which I do not want to eat. For other various reasons.#So I may be displacing the emotion onto the rabbit who I happen to know would taste good.... further ethical dishonesty #the REAL question is where's the neighborhood coyote when you need them #google search 'how to attract coyotes to yard'#'get coyotes to eat my bunnies how'

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