Shouldn't humans kill anything that they eat at the very least with their own hands? Isn't it courtesy to animals?

Seiichi Motohashi

 

 

Like other animals, humans kill living creatures and cannot survive without eating them. Humans have pushed away this fact beyond the veil. The photographer saw honesty in the job of facing the karma of killing when the worker who shoots a core rod of iron between the cow's eyes, gently sweeps a mosquito on his body without striking. From a photo collection, "Slaughterhouse."

 

"December 16  2018

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun"