Bovine Resort
By Steve Sommers, Fri Dec 9th
Meat is murder - I understand that - but what if it weren'tmurder? Would it be alright to eat it, then? The reason I wasthinking of this was that I almost hit a couple of wild turkeyswhile driving to work today and it occurred to me that if I hadhit them it wouldn't be murder at all and their meat would befree of the stigma of cruelty that taints most meat. And Ishould be able to eat themwith a clear conscience. (In Wisconsinif you hit wild animals you are allowed to keep the meat foryourself, so it also would have been total legal. I suppose youcan't try to hit them and you have to stay on the road, butother than that it's okay).
That example was hypothetical, but I've got a real-life one thatmakes my point better. A co-worker of mine - a vegetarian - hitfive deer at one time on the road, then donated the venison to afood shelf. Here you have a non-meat-eater providing un-murderedmeat for charity. It seems to me that in this case, eating thosedeer is almost virtuous.
This is fine so far, because basically I'm still talking aboutroad-kill, tasty road-kill, but road-kill nonetheless. And mostmeat just isn't obtained in
