Separate from this event, is the fact that the cow was being killed. I was not raised on a farm, nor did my Dad and I ever go hunting as we had always planned to do. I’ve never had to directly kill the animal to get my food. I know that most of the world still does just that.
If I absolutely had to do it, I could once I got hungry enough, but it would be very very difficult. I won’t lie.
Yes. I could it there was no other way.
No doubt.
I have read a great deal, and a common thread in nearly anything I have read is that when people are hungry, they will eat nearly anything, from leather shoes to other people.
The urge not to starve is an extremely powerful one, and I never want to be in that position, which is one reason I am a conservative and anti-socialist, because that is at the the end of nearly every socialist rope.
Reading about people lost at sea, they will even try to eat completely unpalatable thing raw, things like raw shark and even raw seagull, both are which, by any account, nearly impossible to eat, but...people try.
Yes, I have no doubt I would even try bugs if I had to, even without prodding from UN anti-meat scolds.
Every time I eat meat, I remind myself of where that meat actually came from (not born in a styrofoam shrink wrapped tray) so that I don’t take it for granted.