| Meat is murder - I understand that - but what if it | | | | charity. |
| weren't murder? Would it be alright to eat it, then? | | | | It seems to me that in this case, eating those deer |
| The reason I was thinking of this was that I almost | | | | is almost virtuous.This is fine so far, because basically |
| hit a couple of wild turkeys while driving to work | | | | I'm still talking about road-kill, tasty road-kill, but |
| today and it occurred to me that if I had hit them it | | | | road-kill nonetheless. And most meat just isn't |
| wouldn't be murder at all and their meat would be | | | | obtained in this way. But what if all the meat that |
| free of the stigma of cruelty that taints most meat. | | | | was consumed in America came from animals that |
| And I should be able to eat themwith a clear | | | | died from natural causes? Would anybody have any |
| conscience. (In Wisconsin if you hit wild animals you | | | | problems with that?Here's how I think it would work |
| are allowed to keep the meat for yourself, so it also | | | | for, say, beef. Instead of cattle farms you would |
| would have been total legal. I suppose you can't try | | | | have cattle communities. These 'cattle communities' |
| to hit them and you have to stay on the road, but | | | | would be set up so that they provided everything a |
| other than that it's okay).That example was | | | | cow would need to live a long fulfilling cow life. It |
| hypothetical, but I've got a real-life one that makes | | | | would be a resort almost for them. They would |
| my point better. A co-worker of mine - a vegetarian | | | | receive the finest care available till they gently close |
| - hit five deer at one time on the road, then donated | | | | their eyes at the end of their happy lives.Then we |
| the venison to a food shelf. Here you have a | | | | eat them.Steve Sommers is the author of Breakfast |
| non-meat-eater providing un-murdered meat for | | | | with the Antichrist. |