Off my high chicken
In response to the back lash from my last post (where I got drunk and tortured a chicken) I think I need to offer… some sort of apology/clarification/refocus. I should have been more blatant about how unfair it was to the chicken, perhaps. I admit to having no experience. I wanted the knife sharp, I tried really. It wasn’t as if I really think I did it wrong. And it didn’t go on eternally. But it wasn’t exactly the most pleasant time for that chicken (it was hell. the chicken was terribly in pain. let me not minimize it).
I also agree that I have no moral high ground to condemn people for eating meat. Fact. I don’t really think anyone does, and I hated it when vegans would scold me for something in the States. So sorry for coming off in that regard. I just feel glad that I was able to know more about what it takes for me to eat meat. (I’m a Women Studies major, I can rip that particular statement apart just as well as anyone else. I know that me being “glad to know” comes at the death of another creature. Nonetheless, I do feel lucky. Many don’t have the experience or think about it twice)
I don’t think the chicken cared that I tried to reassure it and that we offered a prayer. I also don’t really think it excuses the brutality of the death. I was trying to describe more of my coping process there. No the chicken did not offer itself up, we did not have some Native American communion experience of souls meeting or anything magical.
I’m slightly amused at the high number of responses I’ve gotten to this post as opposed to any other post I’ve done. Apparently I was insanely mistaken for thinking I might’ve come across as a bleeding heart when I must’ve looked much more like a drunken chicken sadist. I felt the need to respond to some of the comments mainly because I think people take animal cruelty seriously, which is justified. And I wanted to climb off my high chicken and say that this is just my experience. This is what I did. This is how I experienced it. These are my impressions. You don’t have to agree. I appreciate the criticism.
