...Other than being less prepared to do what I need to to survive if I'm stranded in the wilderness?
I'm from America. Our wet markets(we call ours "farmers markets" as if it's any different) have no animals meant for food. Here I experience all animal products prepackaged in corporate markets. Meat pre butchered in styrofoam trays, wrapped with plastic. The killing process is hidden from customers, done many miles away from the market.
There's two instances I've seen animals for eating before they were consumed. In Hawaii at a luau where they showed the pig to everyone before they killed and cooked it. And abroad in a market where someone was slitting chicken's throats.
I am committed to continuing to eat meat. I think it's kind of shitty of me to not be mindful of the process of how animals end up on my plate. I also want to experience wet markets with less disgust of the act of animals being killed. I think it's unfair of me to judge others for killing for food. I mentally isolate the butcher's role from the rest society. Plus, there are many native peoples for who the process of killing animals is a part of their culture.
Why, though...? Like I still eat meat, that's why I'm commenting on this post, but I'm not "committed" to continuing — I want to quit, I just situationally feel like I'm unable to.
Hey tell the women's advocates to stand down, I just found out that many native peoples have female genital mutilation as a part of their culture (this means it is immune from criticism)
I have other priorities higher than a completely plant based diet change. I might do it one day, for now I've just reduced my meat consumption. And I didn't say you can't criticize it.
In which case, why mention native peoples at all? For that matter why use the phrasing of "commitment to continuing" when you really mean "might quit if given the opportunity" but y'know that's semantics anyways.
I think they were trying to say that they want to experience butchering but more from the perspective of those cultures where it is ritualized and done in as respectful a way possible as opposed to "guy whacking off chicken heads in a market stall" but idk maybe i misread it
What are those higher priorities?
It's also not part of OP's culture or there would be no need to phrase it that way.