The more we become detached from thinking of meat as animals the harder the impact of realizing it again could be, but if it became normalized people would just stop being shocked quickly.
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That said, lamb is quite rare in Japan, it's eaten primarily up north in Hokkaido.
Lamb is meat from a young sheep - raised to be eaten young.
Mutton is meat from an older sheep, generally from sheep no longer good for wool production, too old to bear lambs, etc.
Mutton is a relative rarity outside the farm gate in shops and city butchers .. in an economic sense as soon as a sheep is big enough and well fed enough to be sold on to super market chains, why invest further time in that animal?
Unless, of course, wool production and| lamb production (ie. older ewes and some rams).
If Apple store started hanging pictures of mine workers who produced the rare earth materials that went into the phone and living conditions of the minimum wage factory workers in Vietnam who assembled the phone their sales would go down alot.
Most people are already aware of those things, but choose to ignore it.
For a similar reason people prefer packaged meat and frozen fish at a supermarket and avoid non-ventilated rooms with piles of meat and fish, because the smell is undelicate and associates with lower standards.
Pretty sure top CEOs would feel irritated as well if they had to watch and listen about their wagies’ unembellished life conditions for an hour everyday.
We are much more selfish than ignorant. I’d say most people aren’t ignorant at all. They are just okay with it as long as it stays away.
Nope.
Never been in a farmer market?
Pig head, ears, legs are a quite common thing to see there. Sometimes a cow head, tongue.
Results may vary in America though.