The concept of "killing well" is one point on which I agree with Donna Haraway, even if I might have phrased it a bit differently. As she has pointed out, living involves killing, since we are continually using resources that could nourish other creatures. "Killing well" is almost the same thing as "living well."

At any rate, my own personal model for this is probably the reconstructed 1750 farm in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where my wife Linda works as an interpreter, dressing in period costume and demonstrating traditional crafts and tasks, and where I have occasionally volunteered.  In the eighteenth century, just about all animals including livestock were only semi-domesticated by contemporary standards. They could forage for food, and their lives were all a good deal...