two people I would not have thought about in the same way, before today
you know what? i grew up on a farm. i've butchered animals. i've milked them. i've bottlefed them. i've healed them. i've euthanized them. i've midwifed them. i'm completely unimpressed
modern living in the west means we are disconnected from our food sources like no generation before us. the chicken nuggets on our plate bear no cognitive relationship to the actual chickens we see, probably, only on television or the internet
then, at age 10, you ride by a truck on the highway, and see some movement in the slats and a pink snout trying to poke out: pigs going to slaughter
and for the first time, you realize what's going on
and you think you are witnessing fucking auschwitz
it's so fucking maudlin!
such contrived weepy empty drama from the mind of people raised more artificially than their food!
it's just food you coddled cloistered fucks. it has a brain? it has thoughts? emotions? so what! has this EVER fucking mattered in hundreds of millions of years of carnivore catching prey on the savannah or in the jungle or in the seas?
feel the inside of your mouth. between your incisors and your molars (you have both, you're an omnivore): you can feel two jagged teeth. these are called your CANINES. they are MADE to RIP flesh from bone and masticate it. you ARE an eater of meat. says hundreds of millions of years of evolution. says what every previous generation of YOU did, going back generations since before your ancestors were human, even mammal
now THAT'S natural morality (as opposed to human morality, which governs our relationship with other humans, NOT that which governs the relationships in the natural world or our relationship with it)
our grandparents and greatgrandparents and every generation before that grew up in societies where domestic farm animals were in earshot and smelling distance away, their entire lives. before they could talk they were aware that the geese squawing outside for the past few months wasn't squawking anymore because it was on the dinner plate tonight. no. big. deal
in fact, today, most of humanity lives like this: humans and ducks, pigs, cattle, etc., all bric-a-brac next to each other in a cacophony of noises and smells. this is reality. this is normalcy. the majority of humanity, in time and space, does not consider eating meat or who butchers it an issue
it's only an issue for rich coddled drama queens who grow up in hermetically sealed lives away from their food sources. in other words, your "morality" is as artificial and inconsequential to the reality of life on earth and of the majority of humanity, as your rich upbringing is (if you were born in the west, in the modern era, you are rich, according to any previous generation or every other contemporaneous society)
meat is food. meat is good. tonight i am going to have myself some chicken nuggets, and i'm going to enjoy it, knowing full well what i am eating was once a chirping chicken. who FUCKING cares. get the fuck over yourselves, rich sheltered westeners. you live in an artificial hermetically sealed environment, and some of your attitudes are pathetic reflections of your artificial unreal upbringing
meat is not murder. meat is TASTY
one final thought:
BACON
(*lips smack*)
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