To Leftists, particularly the stupid ones, electricity comes from those things in the wall of their houses, and meat and poultry were raised in white styrofoam trays covered with shrink wrap.
Life and death on a farm is a common thing to farmers with livestock. They have to be practical, because they don’t have the time or money to be sentimental. A working farm doesn’t allow that.
My wife and I stayed for a week at a dairy farm up in Vermont that probably had about 200 cows and doubled as a bed and breakfast. You could help with the chores if you wanted, or...you could hang out and read a book.
No television.
It was interesting. I loved watching the workflows, how people did things, the pace they worked at, etc.
As I was reading a book on the porch, I saw one of the dairymen get the attention of his coworker. Shortly, a backhoe with a bucket came out, and they loaded the corpse of a dead calf into it, and drove off. I followed and watched, they dug a trench, put the calf in, covered it up.
They had work to do, and not much time to mourn the death of a young animal, and so it went. Very workmanlike and little to no sentimentality, as one would expect, then back to work.
Deal is so sanitized these days. If one wants to respect life you experience the death of an animal, only then can you respect all life.
On the farm we didn’t have money to spend at the vet, we got a new dog.
There was a reason Jewish sacrifice was to be real, not a label on a pkg of hot dogs.
The reactions to this piece offer a good view as to why leftists think the way they do: minds filled with idiotic fantasies about how life works and self-righteous sentimentality masquerading as moral insight.