Why don't people understand?

[Davaroo]

Personally, I do have difficulty killing an animal for food. I do eat meat, but I don't want to have a relationship with the animal I eat. I just can't. Maybe that would change it the need arises...I have not been in that situation, though.

This is why I dont name them, much. After the first season if one has proven itself to be a longterm keeper, then I may.
Lori, on the other hand, names them at the outset. Every critter gets a name in her book. If they die or must be dispatched, then so be it.​

 

[curliet]

It is hard to understand why some don't "get" your feelings toward your animals. I have emotional ties with all of them, except maybe not quite so much towards those darned meat birds, LOL. I give them a group name, it's Baby Huey. I know that he was a duck, but these birds are just big dumb dufuses like him, and this keeps me from feeling so close to every individual.
On the other hand, I was raised to believe that life is a cycle and some aspects of life are meant to nourish others, so goes the food chain. My culture says that at one time all animals, including man, spoke the same language, and were all one family. The Creator then made each animal a language of it's own, and made rules for all their behavior. Some animals were intructed to offer themselves to us (man) for our sustenance. And man was instructed to treat those animals well, and to thank them for giving us that ultimate gift. When we hunt, there is aways a prayer said over the deer or other animal's body, thanking the Creator and also the animal for being there for us. The same happens with any animal which dies for us to eat.