u/BugChance7911

Has modern animal industry made us psychologically distant to animal individuality and the act of killing ?

So , I was watching this video on YouTube where these tribal people were trying to hunt a deer and it was long 8 hour hunt and when the hunter ultimately killed the animal the thing I saw was pure gratitude and emotions and realisation that he had killed a being to further his own life so an importance of life itself . And then I thought we don't have this experience anymore and this has made us distant from the animal we eat . We don't know anything about the animal that has been presented as meat in front of our table, for us it's not a distinct animal but rather just a meat .So, I think people should get familiar with the animal they are going to eat but not form any bonding with them but just familiar with their behavior and how they act and live , I think so and if they can psychologically process it and then make the decision to let them get killed or kill them and then eat or decide not to kill them, it is much better, though it's not similar to hunt and can't produce the same emotions but atleast it can give the animal it's meaning in the memories of the person who eats it ( compared to now when no one knows about the animal they are eating) and remember that the animal itself had a life and he ended it to further his own life . Edit - The hunter hunted for his survival not for fun, to make it clear.

Edit - I know it's practically impossible to be familiar with every individual animal you eat , I just want that people should be aware of the reality and should visit slaughterhouses and be familiar with the act of killing the animal itself and spend sometime with these animals in general and know them better and then decide if they want to kill them for food or not .

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u/BugChance7911 — 1 day ago