Living Car Free - Any car-free Vegans or Vegetarains?

Been a veg now for a year and a half and going strong. As for energy, burning protein for energy produces more nitrogenous waste for the body to have to excrete as opposed to buring carbs. i do miss the the taste of meat though. Maybe some day in the future it will be feasible to personally be responsible for the acquisition and preparation of animal products for consumption as opposed to today's situation where we pay someone else to kill and clean our meat products. When dead animals appear cellophane wrapped in a sterile "magic box" for our consumption, is is difficult to give thanks for the death of that animal in order to propagate our own lives. Ashe.
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well said.

Why would paying somebody else to slaughter your meat be less appropriate than doing it yourself? I'm thinking in terms of the division of labor and variations in skill - being a good butcher is a craft in its own right. To me this sounds as wasteful as getting rid of cash and returning to a barter system. I'm just trying to understand.:)

I'm a vegetarian -no problems with eating meat, I just never really liked most of it.

[QUOTE=hotwheels;6851559]Why would paying somebody else to slaughter your meat be less appropriate than doing it yourself? I'm thinking in terms of the division of labor and variations in skill - being a good butcher is a craft in its own right. To me this sounds as wasteful as getting rid of cash and returning to a barter system. I'm just trying to understand.:)QUOTE]

Hola Hotwheels. It is not inappropriate to pay someone else to kill and package up meat products, in my opinion, as long as the person comsuming the meat product is still able to give thanks to the spirit/essence of the dead animal that gave up its life for consumption. Most westerners, though, are horrified by the thought of killing an animal for consumption (probably due to the widespread dread of our own mortality) and prefer to export this duty to another, and in the process export their responsibilty of slaughter along with the intimate ability to give thanks for said slaughter of the animal that they are consuming. Does this make more sense??? The English language is notoriously inadequate in its ability to delineate anything not related to science or economics, which destroys our abilty to discuss the sacred in any meaningful context. Ashe.
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[QUOTE=hotwheels;6851559]Why would paying somebody else to slaughter your meat be less appropriate than doing it yourself? I'm thinking in terms of the division of labor and variations in skill - being a good butcher is a craft in its own right. To me this sounds as wasteful as getting rid of cash and returning to a barter system. I'm just trying to understand.:)QUOTE]

Hola Hotwheels. It is not inappropriate to pay someone else to kill and package up meat products, in my opinion, as long as the person comsuming the meat product is still able to give thanks to the spirit/essence of the dead animal that gave up its life for consumption. Most westerners, though, are horrified by the thought of killing an animal for consumption (probably due to the widespread dread of our own mortality) and prefer to export this duty to another, and in the process export their responsibilty of slaughter along with the intimate ability to give thanks for said slaughter of the animal that they are consuming. Does this make more sense??? The English language is notoriously inadequate in its ability to delineate anything not related to science or economics, which destroys our abilty to discuss the sacred in any meaningful context. Ashe.
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When it comes to the animals I eat, I'm a lot more concerned about the way they live than the way they die.

That's why I try to buy only organic meat. Unfortunately, our government's insane agriculture policies make the inhumane practices of raising animals in confinement almost a necessity.