Quote Originally Posted by Bree Fletcher View Post
So... what would you have done? Obviously you've thought this out, so I'm interested. (But the chicken couldn't talk. It was a vegetable, remember?)
Yes, sorry about the chicken comment, my bad!

But that's where I'm a hypocrite, see. Another wonderful human condition. I am too emotionally attached to certain kinds of animals, I know my mental strength is capable of many things, however in the end regardless of my emotional convictions as I know them today would not allow me to, making me a hypocrite as I am not a vegetarian.

The whole "out of sight out of mind" helps me eat meat and enjoy it. I've worked on farms before and have always kept an emotional distance from animals I enjoy to use as nourishment. I could never eat my own puppy even if he died of a heart attack, and he doesn't "talk". In fact, although dog is considered quite common to consume in many parts of the world I myself couldn't knowingly do it because I have grown emotionally attached to too many members of that species, as with cats, or hamsters, horses etc. I'm a walking contradiction and that bothers me.