There are many reasons to be vegetarian but I don’t mind about what happens to an animal after it dies, so long as it lives well
used to only eat meat from sheep whose names I knew. This was not a particularly difficult task: they were all called Sam, through a naming convention established by my father. He assured us it had nothing to do with both his daughters dating people named Sam at the time.
With so many family members in farming, I could always get meat directly from the source. I couldn’t tell you, really, why that changes the ethical equation, and I’m sure there will be people rushing to tell me that it doesn’t. But, to me, eating meat when you know exactly how the animal was raised and how it was killed is an entirely different proposition to buying something from the supermarket and never once thinking where it came from.
There isn’t really a term for this way of eating. That is, eating vegetarian except for occasionally sharing an omnivorous family meal made from meat of known provenance, or in circumstances where the host doesn’t know you prefer not to eat meat and would be embarrassed if you point it out. As a dietary preference, it usually deals in absolutes, which is a shame. It’s much easier to keep it up if you’re less strict about it.
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