>I don't know how people can do that, slaughter an animal they've raised themselves.
Easily? Before the Disney-fication of our idea of Nature, facilitated by the ability to have several middlemen between us and our food and/or to get it in highly processed form, that's what people just had to do and did to get meat.
It might sound like this was the case in some distant medieval past, but as long as at least the 1970s, in e.g. villages all over western Europe that was the norm - not supermarkets. People bought from a butcher, but also had animals they tended and slaughtered themselves.
And it remains the same in huge swaths of the developing world, Latin America, Asia, etc.
An insteresting consideration is, that, for all urbanites soapy modern "feelings" about the issue, they eat meat far more often than those people in those rural places.
Easily? Before the Disney-fication of our idea of Nature, facilitated by the ability to have several middlemen between us and our food and/or to get it in highly processed form, that's what people just had to do and did to get meat.
It might sound like this was the case in some distant medieval past, but as long as at least the 1970s, in e.g. villages all over western Europe that was the norm - not supermarkets. People bought from a butcher, but also had animals they tended and slaughtered themselves.
And it remains the same in huge swaths of the developing world, Latin America, Asia, etc.
An insteresting consideration is, that, for all urbanites soapy modern "feelings" about the issue, they eat meat far more often than those people in those rural places.