ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
ORIGINAL: magicman54494
ORIGINAL: nchawkeye
Magic...The problem is we are no longer a rural society, so many on here have never killed a chicken, hog, cow, or even a boxed rabbit to eat...I'd bet most on here would starve if they had to plant a garden and grow their own food, whereas some of us had fathers that taught us how to prepare food for the table, some didn't...
What size fish do you have to catch to eat it??? Next time you eat eggs for breakfast, think about what you are eating...At what point do you decide "it's not right"...
I grew up on a "hobby" farm. We loved our animals. They were our pets. They all had names. Then we ate them. It was just the way it was and we accepted it.
LOL I don't let my wife and daughter name the chigkens we are going to eat. We just hatched out 15 chicks and they are already trying to name them
. But they both understand that even if it's named we still eat it (except for the couple that are "pets"). One time my daughter asked what we were having for dinner and I told her "99" soup (one of the roosters LOL). My daughterhas watched while we skinned out deer (one was a fawn, gasp!)and chickens. As soon as I can trust her with a sharp knife she'll be helping (she's 7).
nchawkeye has made a hell of a point. You guys would be surprised at how many people ask me if we can eat the eggs our chickens lay or if the hens need a rooster to lay eggs and so on. It is just amazing how ignorant most folks are about where their food comes from.
I can remember eating Mr. Magoo, My pet goose, like it was yesterday. We incubated a lot of duck and goose eggs. The young ones thought we were their mama. We even hatched a batch of pheasant eggs. I used to incubate eggs for the kindergarden class at a local school. I would come in and candle them for the kids. Then they would get to watch them hatch.