I remember my grandmother telling me that during the early years of their marriage they raised chickens on their vineyard ranch. My grandmother said my grandfather could not bare to kill the chickens so she could turn them into supper, and she always had to do it. Although my grandfather was a lifetime meat-eater, he deeply loved animals, and I share that love.
Today, the majority of us in industrialized countries are far removed from the slaughter of animals. "If slaughter houses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian," Paul and Linda McCartney said in a statement about why they no longer ate meat. Read more
