• @[email protected]
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      132 months ago

      Well if the ants can do it, why can’t we?

      (Btw, I’m opposed to caged chicken egg cultivation, and even had my own chicken in the past before I couldn’t anymore for eggs. Now I just pay the premium and researched which were the most ethical eggs in the store available. Happy hens make better eggs anyway. I’m just pointing out we’re not the only ones that raise animals for consumption in nature).

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      82 months ago

      I invented a fictional society for stories in which you are allowed to buy and consume meat, but only if you have a “carnivore’s medallion”. The only way to obtain one is to have witnesses observe you personally slaughter a living being (eg, a chicken) with no assistance.

      Ideologically, seems like a good way to put friction on meat obsessions and get people to think about it.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          Well, hunting involves the whole orange vests, ensuring legal permission, stalking an animal, etc. The idea would be if this world has hunters, any of them certified as a witness can get their colleagues a medallion without going the whole chicken route.

          But obviously, most people who eat meat today don’t hunt. So they would need to go through the experience of taking life once before reaping the benefit.

        • JustEnoughDucks
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          12 months ago

          No assistance would be no guns, no bows, no knives, no traps, right?

          Literally using your bare hands or something you find on the ground.

          • Glifted
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            12 months ago

            I mean humans have always used tools but sure, you could take a chicken bare handed. Fish might be easier for a first go as I have seen a few people catch fish out of the water bare-handed after a few tries

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        22 months ago

        I like this idea. We’re raising chickens and probably rabbits this spring. If you’re going to eat meat, you should face the reality of the life you are consuming.

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      42 months ago

      If they went to live naked in the woods and used their apex predator canines to tear out a deer’s jugular, I’m not judging.