The daughter is so right and everyone's reaction to what she said was pathetic.
Eg. It's the way I was raised and I've been eating fear for so many years and I'm fine. A meal isn't a meal unless there's some meat.
So ignorant and totally disrespectful of the daughter's view.
Not that it's the only degrading trait in the family.
Older generations. Things take time to accept and change.
shareHer probelm was with the hippy dippy way she said it.
You eat the animals fear?
Fear is intangible. You can not eat fear.
It is a chemical reaction.
She is 100% correct that the meat is affected by fear and that chemical reaction. Hunters know this, which is why they try to kill an animal without causing fear.
But you can not eat "fear". That just sounds silly.
She went about explaining herself in the wrong way. But lets be honest, in that family, is there ever a right way? The family itself was pathetic, I would expect no other type of response.
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Are you a bug Bill Murray?
It's natural reaction as stupid and primitive as it may sound
Anyway, who says we are not supposed to eat fear just cause we don't like feeling it.
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Remember, the meal on your plate is probably not hunted unless family or friends of the preparer hunted it themselves. Almost all meat that we eat is farmed. Ergo, the animal would not really be afraid, because they've lived their entire lives a certain way, and have no reason to think that anything is unusual when they're going into a slaughterhouse.
shareAlmost all meat that we eat is farmed. Ergo, the animal would not really be afraid, because they've lived their entire lives a certain way, and have no reason to think that anything is unusual when they're going into a slaughterhouse.
You are so wrong about the animal not feeling fear when they go to a slaughterhouse. You've obviously kept yourself in the dark about that fact. Now, I'm not a vegetarian. I eat meat. However, I am WELL AWARE of what goes on at a slaughterhouse, and if you think animals going in to those places are not TERRIFIED, you are extremely naïve or highly obtuse.
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Almost all meat that we eat is farmed. Ergo, the animal would not really be afraid, because they've lived their entire lives a certain way, and have no reason to think that anything is unusual when they're going into a slaughterhouse.
That's what older generations do to their younger family members. Kind of use them as a punch line. I remember having to go on a special diet and couldn't eat meat. My grandparents couldn't mock me enough and my grandma tried shoving steak in my mouth.
That family was just plain dysfunctional though.
"Salad is the food that my food eats."
shareI obtain my meat from "The Comedy Abattoir".
They have a resident comedian-play Spike Jones and Morrisey records and pump in laughing Gas and Helium.
To see cattle laughing hysterically in a high-pitched "voice" is quite astonishing.
Visitors are allowed and all proceeds go to the Stoke Newington Railway Museum.
To obtain a ticket- call Harry.
That's what older generations do to their younger family members. Kind of use them as a punch line. I remember having to go on a special diet and couldn't eat meat. My grandparents couldn't mock me enough and my grandma tried shoving steak in my mouth.
Of course. The consistent factor of family relationships in this film is disrespect, with very few exceptions.
If they welcomed her point of view or treated it as legitimate, that would have been downright peculiar. Why would a markedly dysfunctional family suddenly break stride to be kind and thoughtful?
Agreed, OP. Doesn't matter if you think it's nonsense, why treat a child in the family this way? It was awful.
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I saw that scene as a metaphor for the way the family thrives on causing each to "eat fear" by shaming and brutalizing each other. Even one of the kindest family members, Big Charlie, piles on Jean by shaming her over her explanation of her vegetarianism.
shareAnyone see Temple Grandin? She designed a slaughterhouse that minimized the animals fear and stress by having them follow their natural herding instincts up until the final moment. I am not sure how many slaughterhouses adopted this design. Seems like it should be the enforced standard.
There is a chemical reaction in the muscle and fat of animals under stress. The flight-or-fight response releases a whole cascade of hormones and natural chemicals throughtout the body. Here's a brief explanation: http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/emotions/fear2.h tm
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I really identified with that scene, because I have been there (though my family is nowhere near as horrid as hers). I went vegetarian of my own accord after reading Animal Liberation in the 7th grade, and I swear we had THAT EXACT CONVERSATION every Thanksgiving for about five years. After that my family gave up (I'm in my thirties now and still vegetarian, and it's been a non-issue for at least a decade). It was humiliating, my mom would always tell a story about me "sneaking" a cheeseburger (it was on my birthday, nothing sneaky about it, and it happened once).
Anyways, kids are idealistic. I think it's one of the great parts of being young (in general, not just the vegetarian thing). If it annoys you, why not say "that's nice" and move on, rather than humiliating someone a quarter of your age? When my much younger (ten years) brother discovered immigration reform, and yammered on about it endlessly and idealistically, I would tell him "you've given me something to think about" and change the subject. (I am pretty liberal in my political beliefs, but he was a total hippy about it)
I think the point of that scene was to show that even Chris Cooper, who was arguably the sanest person in that family, was unthinkingly cruel as well. No one listened to that poor kid, even though she was obviously acting out (smoking right in front of her parents, watching TV after her gramp's funeral).
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