[RedStateRocker]

I wonder to what degree the ritual sacrifice in Jewish law relates to the benefit that people understand where their food comes from? I had a great chef once tell me, vis a vis cooking with the ‘nasty bits’ of pork “An intelligent animal died so you can eat; use everything and treat it with respect.
Maybe having to kill you meat every year or so would inculcate a respect for life and death in modern people.

[SJackson]

Kashrut is a function of respect for animals, but a different topic unrelated to the thread. Having to kill or butcher an animal, or grow vegetables, I'd agree it inculcate[s] a respect for life and death in modern people, as well as engendering an appreciation of where food comes from.