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Quote by: Muckraker  "Killing" (the act of terminating life) is the most accurate, and least connotatively charged, word used to describe what happens to animals we eat. Saying they are murdered is a rhetorical tactic since the definition of the word murder (Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being) clearly does not apply to animals any more than it could be applied to an instance where a human is "murdered" by cancer or by a stampeding bull.
As I frequently point out to other posters, it's great that you are morally ok with what you want to do anyway :) It's a real pain in the butt to not be morally ok with something you enjoy doing. Quitting an enjoyable act is much more difficult than simply justifying one. |
I would use the word "butcher" since that is the actual term for the harvesting of animals for consumption, personally.
I'm not really trying to justify my decision to add beef to my grocery cart (and I will say I think the waste of resources from the destroyed meat in that incident you reference was *atrocious*, truly truly awful on a number of levels, but I feel the same way about the insane amounts of food destroyed on a regular basis by institutions, grocery stores, etc. due to laws which are probably a good idea but still result in mind boggling waste). I'm just trying to place myself in the spectrum here.
