@Michael Pants: I guess that came off in the wrong way. What I meant is that Zuckerberg probably has a greater appreciation for how his meat got to him rather than mindlessly eating something. I mean, wouldn't you enjoy a steak more if you knew how much of a pain it was to butcher it?

Personally, I have been a vegetarian for so long that I figure that its just more for you guys. I gave up being a "meat is murder!" Martyr long ago.

I think I'll have a nice dry-aged steak tonight.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is kind of awesome?  Sure, I'm a vegetarian, but I like that he's at least acknowledging where his food is coming from.  I can get behind that.

Vegetarians and vegans like to pretend that omnivores are oblivious of or choose to ignore where their meat comes from. We're aware. We just choose to pay someone else to take of that mess because jesus, gross.

Jesse Cool is really cool.  Her chickens are lovely.

This is a trend that the people who participate in always seem so proud of.  Honestly, I am more disgusted by a person who would kill an animal and continue to eat meat than the majority of the population in this country who have separated their meat from living creatures.

I am interested in gaining more insight into why you are less disgusted by someone that separates meat from the idea of the meat once being alive. Please elaborate.

Well, as I understand it most people eating a pork chop or steak don't think of the cow lazing around a pasture and then being led to it's final appointment with a knife, or hammer, or bolt gun or electrocution.
The Zuck, by his own admission, has watched a goat led into a room and with his own hand cut it's throat and watched it bleed to death. People choose to separate the meat from the living thing, because the truth of it is quite barbaric.

I don't necessarily disagree with Zuckerberg's point of view.  It's a libertarian way to look at being a meat eater.  You have to let people make their own choices - if you have the stomach to eat the animal, you should probably also have the stomach to deal with its death.  How is it possible to seperate the act of its killing from the act of its eating?  That would be a schism.

I could see - instead of what we have now, which, to me, is an industrial blight on us and the animal world - a system whereby each locale either has regulated volunteer hunting clubs for its citizens as well as tradesmen (hunters and butchers) who would be in charge of supplying consumers by retail & restaurant. 

This kind of thing might bring the ethics of meat eating into more alignment.  This is to say nothing of the sickness and poor meat quality yielded by industrial farming.

I don't think it's necessary to think about it while you're eating it, but it's good to be aware of how it arrived on the plate. For example, I'm aware that it takes many many long hours and long stressful nights for the developers to make mass market videogames, and maybe one day I'll be part of that process (probably not), but i'm not thinking about how great it is that they spent all those stressful hours while I'm playing the game.

Edit: I will say it might be a little overkill (unless he lived on hunting grounds or farm) to unnecessarily do it all the time. Maybe at least once or once per animal and/or research or get to know the farms the animals come from to verify for yourself that the food you buy from that farm is food you care about.

People also WASTE FOOD all of the time. Gigantic portions that are never finished... food thrown out simply because the flavor is not perfect... I could go on. This is just one way of taking a closer look out of what goes into making that meal with the hopes of appreciating what you/we have. I bet if more people did this there would ne zero hunger in this country.

No, it is never a better situation when people are more ignorant of their actions. I don't care for Zuckerberg, but he's actually being a good role model here.

I hope you're a vegan. 

I just heard on NPR that there's a serious overstock of dark meat (wings & thighs) in the US because people don't like the fact that their chicken looks like.... chickens. If you can't handle the fact that your meat was an animal, maybe you shouldn't be eating meat?

That sentence was a guess (at best) by a food writer, not a sociologist or anthropologist, with absolutely no research to back it up. More likely is that it's entirely cultural.

Ooh, I hear that Marc Zuckerberg is a really good meat, so maybe he'll kill himself.

Doucheboy got a gun.

Killing an animal usually doesn't require a gun, so don't let the photo fool you. Unless you were referring to that random dude as doucheboy, then carry on.