But just so you know, the whole theory about stress causing a release of chemicals like adrenaline in the blood that end up making your meat tasting worse IS true, it's just also that blood will always make meat taste worse, so it ends up being better to cause stress in order to remove blood than vise-versa.
I also imagine that, naturally, animals are in a constant state of stress from just survival instinct, so what we would think of as "scaring" an animal probably honestly isn't that much more stressful for it than everything else that scares them in normal life.
Fuck man, sorry about your dad and the city!
But just so you know, the whole theory about stress causing a release of chemicals like adrenaline in the blood that end up making your meat tasting worse IS true, it's just also that blood will always make meat taste worse, so it ends up being better to cause stress in order to remove blood than vise-versa.
I also imagine that, naturally, animals are in a constant state of stress from just survival instinct, so what we would think of as "scaring" an animal probably honestly isn't that much more stressful for it than everything else that scares them in normal life.