Some ancient wisdom...on meat

Can we imbue our modern day practices of taking lives for our consumption with such compassion, such respect, such appreciation, such mindfulness as in this story?

"A Sioux boy was taught by his grandparents 'to shoot your four-legged brother in his hind area, slowing it down but not killing it. Then, take the four-legged's head in your hands, and look into his eyes. The eyes are where all the suffering is. Look into your brother's eyes and feel his pain.
Then, take your knife and cut the four-legged under his chin, here, on his neck, so that he dies quickly. And as you do, ask your brother, the four-legged, for forgiveness for what you do. Offer also a prayer of thanks to your four-legged kin for offering his body to you just now, when you need food to eat and clothing to wear. And promise the four-legged that you will put yourself back into the earth when you die, to become nourishment for the earth, and for the sister flowers, and for the brother deer'."

- Quote from Robert Traer (2013) Doing Environmental Ethics (2nd ed.), p.108; Quote by Karen J. Warren "The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism", Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 125-146, in David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott, eds., Environmental Ethics, 246.

Also, according to Traer (2013), "Native American culture recognises that wolves need to eat as much as humans do, and that buffalo give their lives to both" (p.110).

I believe that there are huge lessons for us to learn from this philosophy.