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The whole process looked beautiful and I felt more alive by participating in the process. Within minutes I skinned and gutted and butchered it.

Seeing the blood triggered a sort of primal feeling of satisfaction in my mind as well. Fresh blood glows almost like a it has a phosphorescence. I realized after cutting the head off and draining the blood into a bucket, that I had never really seen the beautiful radiance of fresh blood. Everything building up to the killing felt intense. It makes killing plants very easy and it makes killing animals much more difficult, both emotionally and physically.Īlthough, killing the animal felt easy and efficient. Vegans have a point in this regard: you can’t hear a plant scream, it can’t run or squirm. Most urban people have never done it themselves. Most urban people have never seen it happen. The rabbit will struggle for its life.” Most urban people forget this. The adrenaline really kicks in when you see the rabbit squirm a bit and think, “Oh right. Instead my adrenaline rushed so fast I thought I might throw up or faint. The emotional intensity of killing feels impossible to describe. It involves the breaking of the neck in less than three seconds when done properly. The broomstick method appears the quickest way, with minimal complications. It takes several moments for the animal to bleed out. So can holding it down and slitting its throat. While no death happens without pain, some can cause much more than others. While it has an iconic primal attraction (the caveman with a club) it can really make the death traumatic for the animal. Beating it on the head has many complications. Beating it on the head with a stick and slitting its throat. But most people I know choose between three different methods. I do after all, still buy most of my food from the store, which means everything I eat (plants included) grew up in various intensities of captivity. While I don’t believe animals should ever live in captivity, I also don’t act like a fundamentalist about this belief. I took the class with three of my friends.

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I have friends who run a rabbit farm in which they run workshops showing people how to slaughter and kill rabbits. I wanted the experience, the rite of passage, of understanding the most deepest connection, deepest way of relating, deepest responsibility of life killing a mammal to eat. While I plan to go hunting this fall, I wanted to feel connected to the food that I eat. I know, I’ve called myself a hunter-gatherer wannabe for years now and still have never hunted and killed an animal, face to face. So the other day I killed a couple domestic rabbits. This can make it a hard experience for those who have not grown up accustomed killing their food face to face. Like a mirror we must literally face the mammals we kill. A sensory overload of all too familiar sounds and sights. I can look into a fishes eyes, see their blood, but can’t hear them scream. But I can’t hear them scream and they have no blood. I can’t feel its blood stop coursing, its warm, still beating dead heart fading in my hand. I can’t look into a plants eyes when it dies from my hand. While they have just as must life and just as much right to life as any living creature, it becomes harder for some to see themselves inside the other living things. Plants have no eyes, no voice and no blood. The spiritual hierarchy that I have said vegans generally believe in comes from the iconic similarities to those things we eat. But from an emotional point, things change quite a bit. Using this logic I can say that killing animals and plants does not differ. To me, all things have this life and deserve respect. If we go small enough, everything has the same building blocks: atoms held together with electric impulses. Plants do not want to get eaten any more than animals. If this held true, plants would not have evolved thorns and toxic properties. Some vegans want to believe that plants do not have nervous systems or an electrical impulse system relative to the nervous system of humans. However, killing these mammals both changed and solidified my emotional experience and logical interpretation of killing.Ī vegan once argued with me that plants do not struggle to live and cannot fight back and therefore, we shouldn’t feel bad about killing and eating them. I’ve often written about how I don’t see a difference in the killing of plants or animals. For a deeper understanding of killing, I killed a rabbit at a rabbit slaughtering and butchering class this last week. One, a rat I trapped without watching die, which felt strange and distant. In the past couple of weeks I killed my first mammals.

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