dogs eat meat
May. 26th, 2004 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikageWhy are we humans cursed with this deluded view of life?
I took Ahab and Becca out to the run to go to the bathroom, and there was a small bird, sparrow-sized, within Ahab's reach. Now, I don't remember what breed Ahab is exactly, but he's a hunting dog, and Ahab ran straight to it. The bird began to fly upwards, and then I couldn't see it, so assumed it got away, until I saw Ahab's mouth moving strangely. I knew that Ahab had the bird in his mouth, so I yelled at him and threw the contents of my glass of water onto him, hoping to scare him into dropping the bird, which he finally did. After struggling to get the dogs in the cage without causing further harm to the bird, I closed the gate and watched the bird shuddering on the ground, and I was horrified. I don't know what I'll do if it's dead when I go to take the dogs back in...
But the thing is, this is nature. This is what happens. Why am I so angry at Ahab. The only vegetarian dogs are ones with vegetarian owners, so what do I expect. Wolves eat meat, and eating meat requires killing animals. I need to learn to accept this.
It's really true, though. Western society is just fine eating meat as long as there is no indication that it was once an animal... If we're not going to stop eating meat, we need to at least stop deluding ourselves into thinking our hamburger was picked off a bush.
I took Ahab and Becca out to the run to go to the bathroom, and there was a small bird, sparrow-sized, within Ahab's reach. Now, I don't remember what breed Ahab is exactly, but he's a hunting dog, and Ahab ran straight to it. The bird began to fly upwards, and then I couldn't see it, so assumed it got away, until I saw Ahab's mouth moving strangely. I knew that Ahab had the bird in his mouth, so I yelled at him and threw the contents of my glass of water onto him, hoping to scare him into dropping the bird, which he finally did. After struggling to get the dogs in the cage without causing further harm to the bird, I closed the gate and watched the bird shuddering on the ground, and I was horrified. I don't know what I'll do if it's dead when I go to take the dogs back in...
But the thing is, this is nature. This is what happens. Why am I so angry at Ahab. The only vegetarian dogs are ones with vegetarian owners, so what do I expect. Wolves eat meat, and eating meat requires killing animals. I need to learn to accept this.
It's really true, though. Western society is just fine eating meat as long as there is no indication that it was once an animal... If we're not going to stop eating meat, we need to at least stop deluding ourselves into thinking our hamburger was picked off a bush.
