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In reply to the discussion: Hunting, just a bad idea to go after this as if it were evil. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)many of our traditions have rites to thank whoever, for the animal. In Jewish tradition, the Shohet, the person responsible for killing the animal in a humane way, prays before the deed.
Now go ask many Jews about this. I am as secular as they come. But it struck me as an interesting factoid, since that prayer goes all the way back to the bronze age, one of the few... which tells you the level of connection people back then had to the land.
We no longer do.
As I said, I am as secular as they come... I might not pray (which a lot of people do) to thank whoever for their daily food, bread, what have you. But I know just how connected we are to the land. And when I die, I know I should be recycled into the web of life. So will you, so will all of us.
And that, which is scientific, is magical in a way. My atoms will become some other's creature's atoms, and calories.