This shirt is such a fantastic touch, because 100 percent of the "try hard meat eaters" I've known are righties. Like, you can't have a cute reel of a baby pig on facebook without all the "bacon bits" or "looks delicious" comments. They're so pathetic. What are you trying to prove? You see an adorable little creature and feel the need to fuck up the vibe so badly for everyone whose feeling good?
As a leftist who supports sustainable meat sourcing like hunting and homesteading, I think it's super important for people to acknowledge where meat comes from and decide for themselves what they think about eating it. (Sort of that Ron Swanson view, despite him being a political opposite to me. I think people shouldn't eat meat unless they can accept where it comes from.)
The people who really grind my gears are the ones who eat industrial farmed fast food meats and then turn around and go "HUNTERS R SO EVILL HOW CAN THEY DO THAT TO A POOR INNOCENT DEER!" Like dude that dear lived a natural life and died to be food for a predator. That's nature. You're eating animals that lived their entire life in a confined space with heaven knows what kind of genetic modifications, being treated as products rather than living beings. You cannot judge hunters, girl.
That said, cute animal videos aren't really the place to be reminding people.
One or two farms around here offer the ability to pay for a cow or a pig directly. You may meet them, interact with them, and well, after the kill, you get a quarter/half of the full butchered animal.
Sadly I don't have the space to store that amount of meat for a year, or the knowledge on how to process it fully, but that's the closest to how I know my grandparents and grand-grand parents raised animals for consumption.
This results in an entirely different level of respect for the animal and for the meat one consumes.
Not everyone has the means to source meat this way and I understand that. I understand folks eating supermarket meat because that's all they can do with their means, but I just get frustrated when people try to keep cognitive dissonance to the fact meat comes from animals
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u/Made_Bail Aug 25 '26
This shirt is such a fantastic touch, because 100 percent of the "try hard meat eaters" I've known are righties. Like, you can't have a cute reel of a baby pig on facebook without all the "bacon bits" or "looks delicious" comments. They're so pathetic. What are you trying to prove? You see an adorable little creature and feel the need to fuck up the vibe so badly for everyone whose feeling good?
Fuck those people.