>>   Absoloutely.  They thanked the animal for giving its life so they could
>>live.  This is exactly the  kind of reverence of which I speak.

>But what difference does that make???
>
>Whether I kill a duck telling some quack quack jokes or after some artsy
>fartsy ceremony to the duck gods--the duck is dead and we eat it. Enjoying
>the meal is reverence enough, no? What possible difference does it make?


the difference is clear when we realise that we don't live from bread alone!
the ingesting of matter is a small aspect of the act of eating.
jean-claude