I used to take care of injured snakes. They seem pretty quick to take offence. Not so bad when you know how to pick up and hold them properly. For any full blown carnivore I always recommend not touching them unnecessarily, and never against the scales when picking them up. When in doubt use a snake hook, and when bitten by carnivores use a clean bandage. Their mouths tend to be pretty full of the nastier variety of bacteria, so be sure to use proper antiseptics.
In all seriousness, I don't get why people eat meat so much. I mean it's kind of annoying and expensive. People tell me it's tasty, and I ponder that. I stioll eat meat, but it 's like any food group. And more often than not it's a luxury depending on where you are. Me personally? It might be years of smoking, but people go on and on about taste of meat being something they're attracted to, and to me a nice bit of cheese and a bottle of wine is tastier. Also more affordable.
I don't get what's so wonderful about meat products. It's food ... a decent amount of pork is lovely in tamarind soup. But the tamarind soup over rice is still the staple of the meal. The pork is there to give it more body and add some protein and animal fats. Something that you can get from cheese ... and more often than not by animal fat and protein counts ... a hunk of cheddar packs more nutrition than a similar hunk of meat by price in Australia.
I don't get it. In short. Humans aren't even apex predators apparently, according to a scientific survey examining diets and food chains. Debunking a whole lot of bad pseudoscience that points to meat intake being responsible for our evolution. If anything, our teeth are better designed for tearing apart digestible plant matter, and that polymorphistic changes within the species to accomodate a high animal fat diet are more extreme than a largely vegetarian existence of most native pre-Sapien and modern Man uprising.
I'm no health Nazi. I used to smoke, I still drink, and I used to do a metric fuckton of narcotics. Not anymore ... and not because of guilt tripping or because I was 'out of control' ... my medical regimen won't let me. But itr seems stupid to then at least stop putting mountains of meat into my body when there is no pleasure benefit, nor an increase in vitality. I did drugs because it was fun, not because I needed to. I don't enjoy meat. And yes, some people mnake a point to that, grill me about it when I haven't done anything other than abstain from eating a bowl full of dead animal, and then have the gall to then accuse me that I am 'guilting them' by choosing not to eat said bowl of dead animal.
It's bizarre. If people wouldn't say you're guilt tripping them by wearing a simple tunic top and they're wearing a cheap off-rack shirt, then why the fuck should anybody say otherwise in terms of food?
Give me a delicious bowl of vegetarian antipasto (anything with pickled eggplant, sundried tomatoes, kalamata olives, pickled capsicum and artichoke), a bottle of cheap red, some crackers and (any) cheese, and I'm happy. It's all I want in a meal. Doesn't need to be warmed, doesn't need to be dressed, doesn't need to be further cooked, it's instantly available, easy to share with others, and I prefer the taste, and you can dip bread into the olive oil and balsamic vinegar residue. I fail to see how it's so mystical that a person can favour that over a pan friend hunk of meat.
If anything I fail to see why anybody likes animal dishes when cooking is quite literally a chore. Cooking is for people who don't have anything better to do ... like be on the internet and complain about cooking.