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Yeah, I’m not super into handling raw meat– well, I wasn’t. I’m sort of over it now. But I get it, it’s real gross and unnerving.
And I can see dealing with that being too heavy for some people. My mother-not-in-law shivers and tells me to stop whenever I mention any hint of what I do at my sister’s farm, and says “if I think about it too hard I’d never eat anything but tree bark”, and I get that attitude, I do. But.
To then go on and seem to genuinely believe that since you don’t see the gross part, the gross part never happened, is really infuriatingly willful blindness.
Not to get into it too much, but I kind of feel the same way about people who eschew meat entirely but then never look at where their non-meat food comes from. I get it, factory farming of meat is gross as fuck (link is to a New Yorker article about a chicken processing plant), and if you’re woke enough to notice that, kudos to you– but industrial farming of vegetables is also, at least in the US, heavily based on exploitation of workers and deeply enmeshed in the degradation of the natural environment. Anyone can sort of pick a point at which well, you just have to eat something, and that’s fine, but an awful lot of people pick a totally random point where they decide they’re cool with it, and then from that point proceed to be all, IDK, self-justified about it.
This case, that my sister was talking about, is egregious because it’s so obvious that the point this person chose to stick at and get self-righteous about is the gross shit happens where i don’t see it and that’s the only moral way to live, which is utter nonsense. But, as you say, not all that uncommon.
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Yeah, I’m not super into handling raw meat– well, I wasn’t. I’m sort of over it now. But I get it, it’s real gross and unnerving.
And I can see dealing with that being too heavy for some people. My mother-not-in-law shivers and tells me to stop whenever I mention any hint of what I do at my sister’s farm, and says “if I think about it too hard I’d never eat anything but tree bark”, and I get that attitude, I do. But.
To then go on and seem to genuinely believe that since you don’t see the gross part, the gross part never happened, is really infuriatingly willful blindness.
Not to get into it too much, but I kind of feel the same way about people who eschew meat entirely but then never look at where their non-meat food comes from. I get it, factory farming of meat is gross as fuck (link is to a New Yorker article about a chicken processing plant), and if you’re woke enough to notice that, kudos to you– but industrial farming of vegetables is also, at least in the US, heavily based on exploitation of workers and deeply enmeshed in the degradation of the natural environment. Anyone can sort of pick a point at which well, you just have to eat something, and that’s fine, but an awful lot of people pick a totally random point where they decide they’re cool with it, and then from that point proceed to be all, IDK, self-justified about it.
This case, that my sister was talking about, is egregious because it’s so obvious that the point this person chose to stick at and get self-righteous about is the gross shit happens where i don’t see it and that’s the only moral way to live, which is utter nonsense. But, as you say, not all that uncommon.
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