It sure as fuck isnt for everyone.

No. If I had to process all my meat, I’m reasonably certain I’d throw my back out inside the first month. Nevermind fainting at the sight of all that blood. But also, “if everybody had to do their own X” is a tired hypothetical that ignores why we have all these surpluses to begin with. If I had to drill my own oil wells and smelt my own steel and assemble my own fan motors and stamp my own computer chips and synthesize my own techno beats, I wouldn’t have anything resembling a modern quality of life.

But raise somebody to kill animals from a young age, and it absolutely could be for everyone. This is, again, a basic tenant of FFA and other such organizations. Normalize the brutality of the agrarian economy before you reach the age where it feels weird. Get a ten-year-old’s hands dirty, so that they’ll be mechanically slaughtering animals by the time they turn 20. Inure people to the screams and the sad eyes and the horror.

Then everyone can have the mentality of the cast of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

if everyone could only eat what they processed personally, r/steak would not exist

It absolutely wood and it would be even worse than it is now. A grotesquery of macabre horror that fans would call you a pussy for failing to enjoy.

Sounds like she knows the amount of work that goes into putting a piece of meat on a plate.

It’s still just kinda horrifying - in my mind, at least - to see the detachment she’s capable of.

I’m sure they have a great early life I doubt the amount of shear terror they are put through justifies a life worth living.

That is the nature of the agricultural industry. You’re one of the sin-eaters of the nation, and - if you’re clever about it - you can live comfortably doing the bloody work of the industry for other people.

At the same time, I don’t think there would be any real benefit if they just put their animals into big cattle cars and shipped them into centrally located urban wet markets. I’m not sure how the patriarch of every household personally handling the bolt gun and the butcher knife gets us to veganism.

I’ll spot one possible benefit. If you had to buy and accept the whole cow, rather than just the choicest cuts, and work your way through the deep freezer before you got another animal, we might cut back on the volume of waste. Its something I’ve kinda wanted to do myself - just go in with a neighbor on a full sized cow every year and that’s my meat allotment until next season - except I don’t have the kind of real estate for a proper deep freeze.

But I could see this as a kind of compromise solution for MUDs. One apartment with ten units gets a ration of X animals that are butchered and preserved on site, rather than individual folks floating out to the grocery store at odd intervals buying random cuts and letting the big boxes dispose of the excess every night.

Or doing big cook-outs around a single animal to feed the proverbial village on festival days rather than piling up pounds of dead flesh for the trash heap in order to guarantee something is always under glass when you decide to drop by.

Anything so that we’re not just creating life so we can throw it away again, so cruelly and casually.

Sounds very Texas.

Last year we had to stash a deer in a creek because we still had two mountains tonget over tonget back to camp so we hiked back with packbaskets to bone it out the next day.

Once again, rednecks in upstate new york are smarter and more authentic than the Texans driving a 150k truck that’s never left pavement.

They typically are. Thousands of dollars per head, then a charge per gun.

Its a way for a man with a very fragile idea of what a man is (whatever the fuck even makes a ‘man’ a man.) to feel manly. Go outside and kill some nature. I unironically see a lot of ‘the west wasnt won on salad’ bumper stickers on Ford pick em up trucks here.

Fragile masculinity is fragile.