...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.

  • hypercracker
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    2 months ago

    People in the US do not legally have the ability to see inside slaughterhouses, and indeed there are laws on the books criminalizing taking recordings of the interior (so-called ag-gag laws) because of how fucking horrifying it is. If you just want to see some farmer kill an individual artisanal hand-fed massaged-daily cow or something that is definitely possible but is not how 99.99% of the meat in this country is produced and every person I’ve met who claims to only eat meat raised that way is full of it.