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In reply to the discussion: Memo to PETA: Go F *** Yourselves for traumatizing children. [View all]hunter
(38,310 posts)... for supper that I'd previously seen alive. Never met the fourth great grandma, but all of them were Wild West and had excellent skills with knives and guns. Any of them could take apart a fish or small animal and prepare it for dinner faster than most people can pick up meat from the grocery store.
My mom and dad don't hunt but as children my parents' freezer was always full of fish, dead domestic animal parts, and wild animal parts. Most of my childhood protein was fish my dad caught.
I feed our own dogs high quality meat and fish dog foods. I don't think it's right to force dogs to be vegetarians. Dogs are omnivores like humans, but with preference for meat.
Mostly I'm a vegetarian, I try to walk lightly upon this earth, but sometimes I'm not. Whenever I'm not vegetarian I thank the spirit of the animal that fed me. (Another one of my heresies, religion says I should thank God first. But why? It's not like He's dead, but if He is, some great whale corpse towed by a boat, well then, what's the problem? Whose flesh am I eating? (some wisted hunter heretic Catholicism. Uncomfortable? Run away!!! Now!))
If I'm ever forced into cannibalism by some very extreme circumstance (Airplane crashing on a remote mountain range, some apocalyptic crash of this civilization) then I'm still going to follow the same ethic. Thank you dead neighbor.
I'm a human, I can live as an omnivore. It's what humans are.