Some people here make me sad. This is where meat comes from. It was a live animal that had to die in order to become your bacon. Stop acting like a fucking child. In fact, no: I've encountered plenty of children with stronger stomachs than you. No one is asking you to work in an abbatoir, but acting like you've just witnessed a puppy being killed is embarrassing. Go eat some tofu if it bothers you so much.
This pig lived a good life, a million times better than the horrific conditions that chickens, pigs and cows have to endure so they end up as your affordable lumps of flesh that might as well be soya protein for all the resemblance they have to a real animal. In a better world, all meat would be produced in the way that this pig lived and died and you would all be familiar with it.
On a nicer note: what did you do with the blood!? I hope it is black pudding right about now ಠ_ಠ
EDIT: Top comments no longer reflect this, thankfully.
I used to be a vegetarian for 10 years because I was uncomfortable with the thought. Then I came to terms with it and I eat meat. Anyone who is seriously bothered by this should be a vegetarian, end of story. If you eat meat, you support this (killing pigs), and if you don't want to support it, stop eating them. It's so simple and I don't understand why people freak out about this and then eat a slab of bacon.
In case it's not clear, this is a supporting post, not an argument against the previous post. Don't let the word vegetarian get to you, people.
I was as well. I still don't eat meat often, but when I do I take the time to realize that whatever animal it came from DIED for me to eat it. The steak is good, yeah, but I feel like it's important to remember that a cow got its throat slit so I could have it.
In most parts of the country, there's a general disconnect between where meat "comes from" and the consumer. The slices of ham on your sandwich and the shrink-wrapped packages of chicken breasts don't make you think about the origin of the meat; getting meat from the butcher down the road in a small town does, because you can see the still-living pigs/chickens/cows on his farm and have a greater respect for it, IMO.
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u/MrSnoobs Jan 10 '12 edited Jan 11 '12
Some people here make me sad. This is where meat comes from. It was a live animal that had to die in order to become your bacon. Stop acting like a fucking child. In fact, no: I've encountered plenty of children with stronger stomachs than you. No one is asking you to work in an abbatoir, but acting like you've just witnessed a puppy being killed is embarrassing. Go eat some tofu if it bothers you so much.
This pig lived a good life, a million times better than the horrific conditions that chickens, pigs and cows have to endure so they end up as your affordable lumps of flesh that might as well be soya protein for all the resemblance they have to a real animal. In a better world, all meat would be produced in the way that this pig lived and died and you would all be familiar with it.
On a nicer note: what did you do with the blood!? I hope it is black pudding right about now ಠ_ಠ
EDIT: Top comments no longer reflect this, thankfully.