{"id":2920,"date":"2002-10-01T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2002-10-01T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2002-10-01T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2002-10-01T14:13:05","slug":"meat-is-meat-which-you-get-by-killing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2920","title":{"rendered":"MEAT IS&#8230;MEAT, WHICH YOU GET BY KILLING THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roblyman.blogspot.com\/2002_09_29_roblyman_archive.html#82380535\">Rob Lyman<\/a> has a great post on PETA, meat, and hunting (I&#8217;ve always subscribed to the People for Eating Tasty Animals version, myself). I made a shorter comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>2) It is moral. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that people who eat meat and have never killed anything are morally suspect. Some creature gave its life for the chicken Andouille sausages in the pasta sauce I made tonight. Pork chops and salmon don\u0092t start out wrapped in plastic on the grocery shelf. I have hunted deer, wild pigs, and birds, and I can say with certainty (and I imagine anyone else who hunts can say) that it fundamentally changed the way I look both at my food and at animals in the world. I respect the death that made my dinner possible in a way I never would have had an animal not died at my own hand.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>but his is more thorough and pointed. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/roblyman.blogspot.com\/2002_09_29_roblyman_archive.html#82380535\">it<\/a> out.<br \/>\nHe also <a href=\"http:\/\/roblyman.blogspot.com\/2002_09_29_roblyman_archive.html#82373812\" taregt=\"browser\">catches<\/a> the amusing point in the &#8216;Uppity Negro&#8217; comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>And why in heaven&#8217;s name would you issue death threats against a guy called <u>Armed<\/u> Liberal?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is he on my blogroll yet??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Lyman has a great post on PETA, meat, and hunting (I&#8217;ve always subscribed to the People for Eating Tasty Animals version, myself). I made a shorter comment: 2) It is moral. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that people who eat meat and have never killed anything are morally suspect. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}