30) Kill an Animal—Get Closer to Meat
Food. It’s something most first-worlders take for granted. Until we kill it ourselves, which will then improve the relationship we have with what we eat.
We go to the grocery store and are provided a plethora of choices when it comes to meat.
Want beef? How about top sirloin, bottom sirloin, new york strip, chuck steak, filet mignon, ribeye, flank steak, tri tip, skirt steak, chuck steak, t-bone, short ribs, hanger steak, or shank.
Ignorant to where the meat came from, its health, and treatment in the animal’s final moments, we’ve become distantly removed from our food.
There’s no relationship between people and their food. We can thank industrialization for that. A good thing at the same time because we don’t have to worry about finding our next meal.
Food is supposed to nourish us physically and mentally. It gives us vitality, comfort.
Ignorance is bliss. We don’t want to know. My girlfriend gets sad when I attempt to expose her to what commercial farm animals go through. Not the slaughtering part for I can’t stomach that myself, but the overall treatment of the animals. They’ve become commoditized in a world where we want bacon for breakfast, a cheeseburger for lunch, and a ribeye for dinner.
The point of this article is to make you grateful for the abundance of food. But I don’t think that’ll happen when you go out there and hunt for your own food. You’ll appreciate the animal—love the animal.
You’ll never look at meat the same way.
