"Billy" wrote in message
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You shut down all emotions eventually. You just can't care
about anything. Because if you care about something, it opens
the gate to all those bad feelings that you can't afford to feel
and still do your job. You have bills to pay. You have to eat. But,
you don't want chicken. You have to be really hungry to eat
that. You know what goes into every bite. All the horror and
negativity. All the brutality. Concentrated into every bite. . . .
Welcome to the nightmare I escaped."



I'm sure that I don't know why this is in this group but I'll bite
anyway.

The writer needs to go out into the bush, with very little food,
and spend a week hiking or something that involves a lot of
physical activity, as I have. There is a difference between being
hungry, and I mean really hungry, and merely "politely interested
in the dainties of one's larder"

You will find out 2 things if you do this:

1) The human body can thrive on far, far, less food that we are
normally used to eating - all you need is water and exercise.

2) When you get truly hungry, and I mean truly hungry, you will
find out that you will have absolutely no compunction about ripping
the head off any animal you come across and cooking it and eating
it. And it will taste really, really good.

The only thing that separates human civilization from human
barbarianism is a full stomach.

Ted