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Originally posted by DonovanPhillips
I think if I had to look at an animal's eyes as I killed it I'd likely become a vegetarian. Maybe that's hypocritical. If so, so be it. But I stopped killing animals when I shot a dove and my grandmother told me that by the actions I was describing, it was likely trying to lure me from its nest, and I'd just left some baby birds without their mother to feed them... they'd die a painful death of starvation.
I was 12 or so. That was the last animal I killed.
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eek! Yeah, that'll do it to ya! I became a vegetarian for years when I was a kid... I was trekking in Nepal with my family and we had a bunch of chickens with us. I was too young and stupid to put it together, so I named each of them and played with them, and ate chicken curry for dinner each night... It only dawned on me that I was participating in a genocide most fowl when there was a single chicken left! I couldn't eat animals for four years after that!
I'm much better now, though... pass the hot wings!