#slaughtering

calendar pages for december (with people slaughtering a pig and singeing off its bristles)

from a richly illuminated book of hours, flanders, late 15th c.

Gauchos slaughtering a steer in Argentina

I recently had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with an extremist. And oh man, I can tell you, it’s not easy. He kept fighting with me on the most random things that came out of nowhere, they weren’t even related to the main subject of our conversation. He went from taking care of animals to fighting with me on vegetarianism, and somehow racism and slavery got into it?

Here’s what I believe though- to each his own. No, I don’t support unnecessary and senseless slaughtering of animals, of course not. However, if someone wants to have chicken on a Friday night, i wouldn’t say they’re wrong. There is a difference between what is okay and natural, versus what is unnecessary and cruel. Killing animals on large scale just for the fun of it, is just plain wrong; however, being a non vegetarian isn’t. It’s a personal choice and has no correlation whatsoever to if you like and want to take care of animals. A person who is a vegetarian may be cruel to animals, while a person who isn’t may be caring and kind and want to take care of them. I don’t believe that this is a valid argument for deciding who will be able to take care of animals and who wouldn’t.

Playing with Veigar is just really nice to me. I just need to play safe in the start, get some AP with passive, get Lost Chapter, and finally start the magic slaughter. So fucking satisfying.

Artwork by racoonwolf