Read my latest IWL blog entry! An Ode To Rule Breaking
I love the bouncy little lambs at the end of my garden, and once they’re old enough I’m happy to eat them.
I’ve been around farms all my life and have never had a problem reconciling Daisy the cow with dinner. Daisy doesn’t know she’s Daisy and doesn’t know she’ll be dinner.
It is really quite relative. If you are biking on the west coast or fishing in Alaska/Canada, you are more likely to be a meal (cougar/bear). In our situation, we are the cougar/bear. If someone prepared it well, I am happy to try it and finish it. I wish you luck. That is a hard position to think through.
Dan
I'm from Northern British Columbia and never worried about cougars or bears, well black bears but in my whole life up there I never saw a grizzly. However the more dangerous animals were the more delicious ones. Suicidal deer and pissed off moose. I knew lots of people that were hurt pretty bad in collisions with them. In high school my buddy's mom was hospitalized when she totalled her car hitting a moose, which apparently ran off. And one drive back to town from down south I passed 4 deer carcasses and saw about 8 pairs of eyes in the dark. Driving a Honda Civic hatchback it was mildly terrifying. So payback from the animals or something.
It wasn't hard for me to think through at all. It was totally arbitrary and probably grew out of my respect for the corvids. I decided that I would try to eat significantly fewer creatures known to use logic and reason and who may also have shown the capacity for tool building and use. Since there are only a tiny handful of species capable of that on earth and the fact that beyond cephalopods most of them are not a normal food source for North Americans, it was really easy.
And beyond those, there is almost nothing else I will not, or have not eaten from bugs to horse meat and bunnies to bears.
Last edited by Henry Krinkle; Nov 13, 2018 at 02:18 PM.
Solve all your doubts through question mode.
Solve all your doubts through question mode.
I hit a deer, but a fairly small one. The worst part of that was having ‘hit pedestrian’ on my nationally shared insurance record. They didn’t have a code for deer.
A quick breakfast of oeufs en cocotte with soldiers
and hot black coffee, of course.
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Last night I made chicken cacciatore
This morning I had 3 gasthaus eggs
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