WARNING - MEAT DISCUSSED HEREIN !!!!!

Hi Kirt,

You seem to be a very thoughtful and honest person, and this
discussion is fascinating, but it begs some questions I've been pondering
about instinctos eating meat.

Not being well-read on the principles, I don't recall what qualified a food
as "primary", but it had to do with closeness to nature.  I wonder why
beef and lamb would qualify, since these are not animals that humans
would be well adapted to catch.  And if you say using weapons doesn't
disqualify a food, then why would blending or even cooking do so?
What's the difference philosophically?
Also, unless you have wild sheep and bovines running around NZ
[maybe you do], how can you say you're not eating commercial meat?
But mostly I've wondered:  when you see a live animal, do you think
FOOD?  [I'm picturing the cartoons where the wolf sees a pig and
imagines a roasted pig on a platter with an apple in its mouth.]  Does
something inside you compel you to chase it down and kill it?  This is
how I imagine natural carnivores to feel.

TIA,
Martha