Meat eaters

“If we had to butcher our own meals, I submit there would be a lot more vegetarians”

This amusing comment at Althouse the other day reminds me how far removed most of us are from what our recent ancestors took for granted, i.e. butchering of animals on the farm for the dining table.

They were not vegetarians. Vegetarians were then awfully sparse on the ground. It is a modern phenom, aided by the fact that most of us are such wusses from having no contact with meat except under plastic film. In our timidity, we imagine being horrified at the bloody process of butchering.

We might have been. They weren’t. It was a part of their living, as it no longer is ours.