On the topic of ADF and Sacrifices
I briefly caught the discussion regarding animal sacrifices on the ADF Discuss list. I don’t really like posting my opinions/thoughts on the ADF lists because opinions are like assholes, and everyone’s got one. I suspect a lot of my views would get flamed, so I say fuggit 
Anyway, sacrifices.
ADF as a whole should definitely not regular any sort of sacrificing. Holy hell that would just open up some draahma. Do I think they are bad? No.
Every animal my father and I have ever hunted or killed from our own domestic stock has technically been a “sacrifice.” There’s always a prayer, however brief it may be, said after the sacrifice of an animal, thanking the spirit for providing us with food for the winter. It’s common practice, and I think it gets a bad rap because people think of sacrificing babies and drinking blood and other such nonsense.
I mean just the reaction of some of my neighbors and people on my friends list is enough to show me that even harvesting your own herds can cause problems. Sometimes I even feel -ashamed- for having to hunt deer or kill rabbits/turkey’s/chickens because people look at it in such a negative light. It can be very troubling. But it’s just part of who I am, how I grew up.
Besides, it’s a lot better than what goes on in the mass-produced farm factories, which is what some of these same people (my neighbors especially) eat on a regular basis. Maybe people just like to be hidden from that reality though? Maybe that’s why it’s so frowned upon?
I think I might have this be a topic for next weeks Witches Weekly.
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2 Responses to “On the topic of ADF and Sacrifices”
September 1st, 2006 at 2:50 am
Yanno, I’m vegetarian and all, but honestly, so long as there’s some sort of thanking the animal for its life and its gift of life and food, hunting/raising animals for meat doesn’t bother me. It seems to me that those who pray before harvesting the animal raise it in a humane way, and that is right and proper… according to my own beliefs.
I cannot fathom why people would have problems with farmers/herders/what-have-you harvesting their own animals. If you have to hunt for food, then you do it. I cannot see what is immoral, unethical, or improper if you are hunting and using what you hunt. Strange neighbors.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 am
i agree with elerah! (i’m not vegan tho, lol) People are so odd!