It is interesting to me that there are so many people who love meat but hate butchery.
This isn't about someone or something specific, I'm just remembering growing up with people who would denounce deer hunting with one hand and eat a burger with the other. Or people who would stereotype butchers as creepy and evil and the job of a butcher as evil, and then order chicken tenders.
I have a lot of thoughts and opinions on meat. Sometimes I feel like I am studying fellow meat eaters in a lab. Trying to understand where these curious contradictions come from like picking apart tangled headphone wires.
"I can't eat rabbits they're too cute, and eating dogs is disgusting because they're too smart and friendly" they say while eating a ham and cheese sandwich. Interesting. I put a drop of sugar water in their enclosure to encourage them to hang out in the open so I may study them further.
Sometimes people get like a snag in their head about specific jobs, like- "*I* would never do that job because it is gross or degrading and only horribly fucked up and evil people do that... But I still want to benefit from other people doing that job! I just don't think they should be respected, fairly compensated, or treated well for it!"
My sincere opinion is that I think there are a lot of people out there who would be happier if they were vegetarian or if they reduced the amount of meat they eat, because right now they're only okay with meat so long as they can stay as removed from the process of killing and butchering as possible.
