• Pirasp@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I mainly kill animals to enjoy the silence that comes after.

    Damn mosquitoes sound annoying AF!

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      Also they’re so damn noisy. You’d think their parents could shut them up, but human babies just like to scream.

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        the least you could do is stfu and be grateful but no you have to fucking play vuvuzela LITERALLY IN MY EAR

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    I actually respect vegans that are vegan to prevent the suffering of animals.

    I get it. Grew up farming. Chicken houses are an industrial horror machine.

    We’ve recently bought a play farm and hope to raise or hunt all our meat. Only the slaughter and butchering of steers will be outsourced. Takes some serious equipment to handle an animal that large.

    I’m an omnivore by evolution and enjoy meat and hunting. I’m always a little sad when I kill something, however. I figure that sadness means I’m human and is a good thing. When I eat meat from something I killed, it means more. There is a lot of respect involved in it as well something like religion.

    If more people had to kill their meat, we would probably live in a very different world and there would be a lot more vegans.

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      Really, all you need is a small tractor to lift the steer after you’ve skinned it and to drop the gut. Skin the animal on the ground and roll it from side to side to get it all off, split the chest and cut out the anus, start lifting at the rear legs with chains through the achilles tendon, and pull the anus through, then as you lift more you can free the gut from the backbone and gravity will pull the gut down as you get higher.

      Let it all fall on the skin, pull out the bits of organs you want or can feed the dog, and you have the carcass hanging now. Split with a sawsall and a long demolition blade. Make yourself a handhold between the fifth and sixth rib, then cut through the spine and breastbone above the 6th rib.

      Leave as much fat on the inside of the cavity as possible so the tenderloin and brisket don’t dry out when hanging. Try to hang it at 2-4C for a couple weeks.

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        This sounds like excellent advice. I don’t even have a small tractor yet. Before steers, I’m going to have to string new fence. Next spring, if I’m lucky and have worked real hard, I’ll be getting a bottle calve or two.

        Did find a cinder block shed with a good roof that wasn’t even listed. Has a loading ramp for a pickup. I’m real tempted to just outsource it.

        Have a hernia and don’t know if I can do it.

        Do have a root cellar that will be perfect for hanging.

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          It’s not a bad job, but with a hernia you might find it distinctly unenjoyable. There’s quite a bit of bending and kneeling as you skin, obviously.

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      we used to live in a world were almost every slaughtered their own animals to eat and withing a rounding error everyone ate meat. its only icky to us today BECAUSE we dont interact with it.

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      I heartily agree. I’m also an omnivore, raised on a farm. The best meat is the meat you raised or hunted yourself, both ethically and taste wise.

      The respect I have for the animal I personally kill for sustenance is the closest an atheist like myself will ever get to religion. I respect the lives of animals to sustain mine as a human, and I know if I raised it or hunted it, it had a much better life and will taste better than any meat you’ll see at a Wallmart.

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        Damn skippy. I’ve learned I’m an atheist with a pagan heart.

        I’ve found that I must be hunting something when I go in the woods or on the water. Animal, vegetable, or something else. Don’t care if I actually kill, catch, or find; there just has to be a goal. I love taking other people and helping them get in tune with the world.

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        This makes me angry. You murder a creature for your pleasure. You do it against her will. If she could talk she’d beg you for her life, if she could fight back she would. Talking about respect in this violent relationship is self-righteous, cynical and speciesist bullshit. Like talking about respect after raping a child. The best pussy is the one you hunted yourself, right?

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          For hunting, would you prefer the animal overpopulation starve, get torn apart over hours by predators, or get hit by a car, killing people? A hunters bullet is one of the fastest deaths a wild animal will get.

          If plants you kill to eat, the trees that became your furniture and home could talk, they’d beg too. So would the termites, bedbugs and lice, viruses and flesh eating bacteria.

          Lastly are you nuts?? Eating a steak isn’t child rape, that’s insanity lmfao

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              Since eating is just like fucking, do you fuck the pumpkin pie at family dinner?

              Also, nice job addressing 0 of the things I said. Keep that vegan rep strong!

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                Haha, no, I don’t fuck pumpkin, do you even get what I’m trying to say?
                Did you look at the Bullshit Bingo? It addresses everything you said, because you’re not the first one to come up with it. It’s a collection of a hand full of replies I hear all the time. I answer them all the time. I even looked up the # so you don’t have to go through the rest of the bullshit.

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          Wow, like you’re pretty warped. Here we are with the rape stuff again. Raping children, no less.

          You need to do some thinking. That line of argument isn’t effective.

          You’re claiming this crazy shit and the above person and myself are actively working minimize the suffering of animals.

          Go touch grass and pet a dog.

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            Why crazy? It is a very accurate comparison:
            Having sex and eating food is a core pleasure baked deep into our brains. We can decide what to eat and who to have sex with and we can use force to get what we want. It’s a taboo to rape and a taboo to kill. Animals can’t fight back like adult humans because they are innocent and often don’t understand the situation they are in, just like children.
            Not seeing the similarities is because specisism and carnism are normalised to us in every aspect of our lifes since we’re born. Watch the videos, I’m not fighting you. If you want to minimize the suffering of animals, leave them alone! It took me quite some time to figure this out as well.

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              I’m currently working outside my old home, preparing it for sell. Taking a break right now.

              A little old lady just stopped to grab things I’m sitting by the road for picking. She has a daughter and grandkids that are running from abuse. They’ll be getting a bunk bed and dressers from us. She likes pigs, we have pet pigs. I’m sitting aside some pig figurines that my girl left behind. One is a birdhouse that is full of piss ants, an invasive species. I poisned the fuck out them because they need to die. They’re varmints.

              I have a rat problem I’m dealing with due to the cat moving and a bag of feed being left behind. I’m using poison, traps, and a gun to kill the varmints.

              I’m not going to take the time to watch whatever videos you’re suggesting. Eating meat isn’t rape. That is a stupid argument you shouldn’t use. It is killing. I’m comfortable with killing.

              I’m likely way more in tune with nature, animals, and trying to minimize my impact on the earth than you ever will be. Some of your ideology is poisonous and you are sick from it.

              Humans have canines and binocular vision because we are omnivores. Meat and killing can be ethical, it’s just difficult.

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                You’re comfortable with killing because you’re not the one whos throat is being slit.
                I would argue that your idiology is way more poisonous and harmful than mine. If you don’t want to watch anything, you can read the transscript here.
                Who’s got the most impressive canines? You know what they eat?

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                  The woman in that picture has some very minor canines.

                  The cat has some big ones.

                  Walking out of a unsuccessful deer hunt, I had an encounter with a mountain lion. Hissed and growled it away. Like totally a peak life experience. It was thinking about eating me and I convinced it otherwise. Did pull my pocket gun in fear.

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      No, you don’t get it. Or you would stop raping, enslaving, torturing and murdering animals.

      The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection.

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          ???

          Getting roaches, which invade your space, don’t contribute positively to it and, in fact, can cause disease is quite different from voluntarily raising chickens for slaughter.

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        I can confidently say that I have never raped an animal.

        My housecat engages in a lot of torture, but she’s a damned good mouser. I put a stop to the torture when I catch it. I don’t allow my cats outside because they’re so bad on native wildlife, especially ground nesting birds. Cats are obligate predators. I kill cats if I find them in the woods as they are now varmints.

        I’m an omnivore, and am at peace with that. I strive to kill in a manner that I find ethical. I kill critters to eat them, varmints to restore balance. I’ll eat the varmints if I can.

        I live in the real world.

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    99% of humans have the complete opposite reaction when the animal in question is a mosquito.

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      Mosquitos are almost parasites and are vectors for disease. It’s a pretty different relationship we have with them.

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        Well, let’s unpack this thought then.

        Pigs (you know, the animal that bacon actually comes from) mostly live off of human waste (aka garbage). They are the origin of the H1N1 virus (also known as the flu) and when not contained they are considered absolute pests.

        How are they different than mosquitos again?

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            Wait, you don’t want to come to my mosquito farm and pet the skeeters???

            You can even play with the baby skeeters in the huge brackish water pond in the back! It’s completely free of predators!

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              I appreciate the humor but I think your initial comparison is pretty bad.

              Wild pigs don’t depend on waste from humans. They’re invasive to the Americas, sure, but there is a huge difference between hunting an invasive species that is wreaking havoc in the ecosystem (and possibly going through your “waste”) versus raising domesticated pigs in abysmal conditions — and all other associated negative consequences — for a market with inflated demand.

              Also, the issue with H1N1 is, again, mostly due to farming.

              So, no, pigs inherently aren’t “almost parasites” and although they can get diseases, like all animals, the threat of transmitting those diseases to humans come from farming practices.

              Mosquitoes are consequential and our relationship with pigs is largely voluntary. The difference is enormous.

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          I can kill a mosquito by clapping my hands

          The pig would probably think I’m petting it or something

          Edit: for the record I mean no ill will, I just thought it was funny to say because well, mosquitos are tiny!

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          Curious what the fantasy world you live in looks like. Where industrial hog farms have garbage trucks heading into them and not trucks of purpose grown feed. I guess you wouldn’t have many landfills either.

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    I would join vegan standards but I still wait for the “eat the rich” part. I mean who would do it? Those vegans? no. This is a job for meat lovers.

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    want to see a westerner have a full on tantrum? Suggest to them that their actions are not always morally neutral

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    I grew up on a farm, I’ve killed and slaughtered my own food my whole life and I always felt good about eating meat because of that fact.

    As I get older I’m really starting to hate killing things, I don’t want to end a life at all. My couple of vegetarian days might turn into a whole lifestyle.

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      You’ve got this! There are a ton of benefits to going plant-based. Dominion is a great documentary to show how most (~90%) are treated, which emphasizes the importance for us to shift away (it doesn’t sound like the way you did it was as bad as this, but this is the info that made me swap away recently).

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    The trick is not to kill them yourself, but have factories and animal farms do it while deluding yourself into believing that there is a humane way to killing a living being when the reality is there are only less painful ways. Also, from the other side of the aisle, the trick is to delude yourself into thinking that animals would have any problems eating and preying on you. If cattle had no place in human society, their numbers would significantly decrease. What does that say about human societies with large socioeconomic disparity who are treated by cattle by the rich as they get increasingly automated?

    There’s no point to this comment, it has been released into the wild so that it may be free.

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      wait… are you suggesting everyone just slaughter their own food? Because the specialization of labor and labor of scale was to blame, not the desire to distance oneself from slaughter. That may be the case nowadays but 150 years ago it was nothing for most families to slaughter their own chickens.

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      I honestly don’t know why more people aren’t excited about A.I. succeeding us.

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        If most people in the world are Putin-esque, making the term meaningless, then sure.

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          No. What is Putin-esque is churlishly claiming that your cruelty and violence are actually the consequences of other people’s decisions and actions. It’s chilling and everyone sees right through it, but neither you nor Putin really care about that, because neither of you are engaging in good faith.

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    Totally missed touch along with many other senses.

    • Killing with my bare hands let’s me feel the life leaving their bodies
    • Killing while standing on one leg balances my desires for vengeance
    • Feasting upon the flesh of those I murder satiates the hunger within me
    • I become lost in the blood frenzy, all sense of time vanishing