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