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Agricola is a great game, with good theming, and I'd like to introduce it to a couple of friends who are vegetarian.
The problem is they might feel uncomfortable with the 'eating your animals' aspect of the game.
How can I change the game's narrative so that they're not eating their animals, but doing something else that converts the animals to food?
The game already supports this with improvements like Pottery, which converts clay to food. Clearly, the imagined implication isn't that suddenly your family has a fulfilling case of pica — instead, the clay is used to make some good which can be exchanged for food (and this exchange is abstracted away in the game).
Imagine something similar for animals in the game, and there you go. (Of course, you'll still have to part with the animals — let's happily imagine that they are unharmed in that parting.)
Of course, if your friends follow the strain of veganism which holds that all animal agriculture is bad, this won't do, and you'll have to reskin the whole game significantly.
