Cook who served kangaroo meat no longer employed by western Nebraska school

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24. The cuter the animal is

The less a person wants to eat it as well.

The way meat is packaged has become so sterilized (both literally and figuratively) people no longer think that a living animal is in that vacuum sealed plastic-wrapped package.

Being in the military, I've had to opportunity to travel across the world and eat animal protein that most Americans would recoil in disgust. I'm also a subsistence hunter and provide my family with meat (our only income is my VA disability and Social Security). My wife was not a fan of it in the beginning. She wouldn't eat rabbit, or deer meat because of the cuteness factor of where the meat came from. When she was confronted with how the meat is butchered (me hanging the deer from the garage ceiling), I asked her how this was any different than what the hamburger, pork, or chicken meat that we may buy from time to time. We are very lucky (in some ways) to live in an area that we know exactly where our beef comes from (right down the street where the cow was grazing last week) or where our eggs come from (right in our backyard).

I think if most Americans were confronted with how their food was processed, they would either become a vegetarian or decide to get their animal protein as I do.