and I agree with this piece on Plastic.

While there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with eating animals, people should be encouraged to look or even participate in the process in which living animals are transformed into meat. While this may seem morbid, it’s a powerful way of enabling one to gain respect for these animals’ sacrifice for the sake of one’s gastronomic pleasure.

Me and Max got a lot of flak from people during a little impromptu mechoui last summer were went thought the whole process, from choosing and buying a goat from a farmer to eating it.

I’m glad to know someone did explain our argument in a rational way. We did try to express them at the time, through the irrational delusions (the dalai lama eats meat but he’s still a good person because he gets muslims to kill the animals for him or at the supermarket, the animal is already dead) of a fellow occidental traveler, but it was a trying task.