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1. swiftcoder · 1790245532 · focus · HN ↗

   > Then, suddenly, the nausea hit... The problem was not the flavor, not the texture, but the knowing. The Knowing. Knowing about the fat tank, about the sticky white substance...

   I feel like squeamish people are probably not the best ones to write about novel meat products...

   1. FranzFerdiNaN · 1790246179 · focus · HN ↗

      So a tank is problematic, but a slaughter house is fine?

      1. vlan0 · 1790247474 · focus · HN ↗

         Nah, these are the same folks that have never watched earthlings.

         If we made it so before one could eat meat of the animal, it had to personally kill and watch the animal die, we’d eat less meat.

         It should be a requirement

         1. AngryData · 1790362748 · focus · HN ↗

            I would be fine with that, but I don't think it would be quite as effective as you think. I don't like hurting even bugs for no reason but still grew up eating our own raised cows and hunted meat and still do to this day. Atleast half of that I had a personal hand in the entire slaughtering and packing.

            If anybody has even the smallest negative thought to eating meat these days, the very first internet search they do will bombard them with pictures of slaughter houses in the most negative light and animal abuse pictures. If that doesn't stop them eating meat itself, very few are going to be turned by a legit farming and slaughter practises.

            My sister is vegan and it wasn't our slaughtering of animals that pushed her away from eating meat, it was the internet showing the worst of large corporate practises. For a long while she merely didn't eat corporate meat and only local or home grown or hunted meat.

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