[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: More Spam (2 kinds)

[Amanda Lewanski]

Amy Z wrote:

> The movie "American Dream," a documentary about Hormel (which, IIRC,
> is the Minnesota company to blame for Spam), is what tipped me over to
> becoming a vegetarian.  The movie wasn't even about the animal side of
> the meat industry--it was about a strike--but a scene-setting bit with
> the hogs did the trick for me.  I suppose any trip to a slaughterhouse
> would have done.

Well, for a semester I was an animal science major at A&M, and got to go
watch the slaughtering and processing of cattle and hogs. It wasn't all
that horrific to me. I think some of the "ugh" factor doesn't involve
what the animal actually feels (which isn't much), so much as that we,
as a culture, are pretty much insulated from dead animals and how they
become neat little packages in stores. Coming from a hunting family, I
didn't have a problem with the details and mechanics of butchering. But
I can see that if you've never seen it before, seeing it on the scale of
something the size of a pig would be a shock.

--Amanda, the bloodthirsty, the unfeeling
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