Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills

theodp writes "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has begun personally slaying animals for food, part of a resolution to fully appreciate the meat he eats by limiting it to that which he personally kills. Zuckerberg has mostly been vegetarian since making the vow, but his hands-on kills thus far include a goat, pig, chicken and a lobster. 'He cut the throat of the goat with a knife,' Zuckerberg pal Jesse Cool told FORTUNE, 'which is the most kind way to do it.'"

Comments

To this, I say, so what?

[Kenja]

Really unsure why I should care... this seems more of a People Magazine article then News For Nerds.

Re:To this, I say, so what?

[LighterShadeOfBlack]

He's not gone off the deep end yet. We reserve that judgement til he takes a dozen tech journalists to a remote island and declares "The hunt ...is on".

I give it a week.

Re:To this, I say, so what?

[Omnifarious]

So, killing animals for food is 'going off the deep end'? I lived on a farm from ages 5-11. We slaughtered several of our animals for food. That's where the meat comes from after all, or weren't you aware?

Maybe you lived in a city your whole life and got it nicely packaged for you in a supermarket or pre-cooked and now you want to consider people who actually kill the animals as somehow beneath you, or having 'gone off the deep end'? Maybe you should reconsider your food choices if you want to avoid looking like either a blatant classist or a hypocrite.

Re:To this, I say, so what?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

People of Palo Alto, HIDE YOUR HUMAN INFANTS!

Is he eating the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution?

Re:To this, I say, so what?

[grub]

When I was a wee lad, I thought that a veterinarian would put the animal, say a cow, under and cut out a steak. After that, he'd stitch it back together and back to the rolling hills of the farm for it.

Then my mom explained what really happened...

Re:To this, I say, so what?

[jcoy42]

ATTENTION CmdrTaco-

Do not accept any invites from Mark Zuckerberg to visit his outfit in exchange for T-Shirts.

I repeat- Do not accept any invites from Mark Zuckerberg to visit his outfit in exchange for T-Shirts.

Re:To this, I say, so what?

[Jiro]

It's not killing animals for food that's going off the deep end, it's the idea that there's some meaning in only eating the ones you kill yourself. He'd never eat only the vegetables he picked himself, or only the bread he baked himself (starting with wheat that he threshed himself). And nobody would only use a computer that they made themselves from iron ore and raw silicon. ("I want to remind myself of how we must destroy the environment in order to get my computer".)

We have division of labor for a reason.

Re:To this, I say, so what?

[peragrin]

NO Cmdr Taco accept his invites to visit his outfit and send kdawson in your place.

I heard...

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard he actually has someone else kill the animal and then steps in and claims credit for the kill.

Re:I heard...

[Puzzles]

Actually Zuckerberg does the killing himself. However the Winkelvoss twins claim the kills for themselves.

I've been doing this for years!

[LighterShadeOfBlack]

Which is why I mostly eat spiders out of tissues :(

Do you think I deserve your full attention?

[tibbetts]

I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the slaughtering pens of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, has the stomach to do.

He only slits their throats

[Ossifer]

So he doesn't raise, hunt or catch them, or clean them or prepare them himself. He only does the actual killing...

Does anyone else find this disturbing? [think Of Mice and Men]

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,

[Qbertino]

the most humane way to kill a goat is *not* to cut its throat.
The most humane way to kill a goat (or any animal for that matter) without chemicals is to shoot it.
At best with a powerfull but silenced firearm - as not to scare the animal while its
sensory functions remain intact for a few seconds after the fact.

Anyway, please refrain from cutting throats of live beings, wether they're animals or whatnot.
Thanks.

Re:Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,

[Hatta]

Absolutely, the bolt gun used in slaughter houses is the best way. However a slit throat is not a "slow bleed". It's a nearly instantaneous loss of blood pressure to the brain. No blood pressure means no oxygen delivery to the brain.

Have you ever experience postural hypotension? That's where you stand up rapidly, and lose blood pressure to the brain for a few seconds until your blood can catch up. Normal people can get light headed from this, and those with low blood pressure can pass right out.

Now if that momentary decrease of blood pressure can cause someone to pass out that rapidly, what do you think cutting the source of blood is going to do?

Re:Not a big deal

[Shabazz Rabbinowitz]

...Big deal, get a hunting rifle and go get a deer, moose, elk...

Pffft, a rifle. A real man goes into the woods naked and unarmed, and kills his prey by ripping out its throat with his teeth.




And a real woman tells him to stay the hell out of the house until he's hosed himself off.

Re:I approve of this course of action.

[element-o.p.]

I've long held the belief that you appreciate you food more if you kill it yourself.

+1

I have two nieces who routinely waste about half the food they put on their plates -- which pisses me off for a number of reasons -- but both are died-in-the-wool animal lovers. "How can you shoot a moose? They are soooo cute and cuddly!!!"...while throwing away 8 oz. of steak every night at dinner.

When you kill the animals you eat for food yourself, it becomes very, very real to you that your dinner was bought with the blood of another living creature. You don't just throw the meat away because you understand where it came from and what it means for it to be on your dinner plate.