Aren't we being a tad double moralist here-Us who point fingers at those who shoot animal for fun.

Do to our huge meat and chicken consumption the slaughter has become an industry and the animal is treated in most cases badly during the grow up-Before slaughter.

Hey! Why should we care -We enter the meal section in our store and pick a package or two of our preferred meat and pay for it...not giving the animal any thought-What we don't see do not make us feel guilty.

Had to put it down in words...My opinion on this matter.

Markus

You are absolutely right, Markus, and thats one of the reasons why I buy meat less often than in past times, and spend more money for better husbandry and would do so also for more humane slaughtering methods. However, that price raise has its limits, beyond which it is for many, and so for me, no more affordable. Also, supermarkest see the reaction I just describe at first hand, and tailor their offers according to customer request - or customer denial. We know for example that food quality and organic food has decreased on people'S lost of priorities sionce inflation exploded.



I had a farner for many years in reach who held his cattle organically, and had the alloweance - rare in germany - to slaughter by so-called pasture shot. That license was revoked by German authoreities, and also, the demand declined, he had to give it all up. The meat costed 2.5 as much as that from the supermarket. That also was my absolute limit.


Simple truth is that so huge mass societies as we now maintain can not be fed by organic farming and organic cattle holding alone. That is the big green illusion.

Personally, I still put some focus on getting fish and meat regularly, for health reasons. It must not be in huge volumes, and not every day, but regularly nevertheless.

And finally, my holiness knows limits :) - beyond which i give in to taste, appetite and wanting to culinarically sin.

I also live by the rule that who eats meat must be willing, by mental attitude I mean, to also kill by his own hand and do the bloody work afterwards, if need be. If you say you would never do that yourself, then you should not eat meat, fish.