Yesterday, my favorite turkey, Toadstool, died from Blackhead, something I have been battling with because my turkeys and chickens free range together. He was a Black Spanish tom, four months old. I did something I had not done before with a dead bird - I skinned him and gave him to the dogs. Normally I just bury them, but he was a big bird, my dogs already kill chickens, and my dogs are picky eaters and this would be one of the few things they would eat with relish. And hey, it would be a meal that did not come from a factory farm!
After all that was done, I scalded the skin and plucked the feathers from it. I figured I would use them in a pillow because I really liked Toadstool, and he would be missed. I went into the kitchen with the bag of feathers and a bucket and made sure there was no skin clinging to the feathers, putting the pieces in the bucket. My family walked in on this and were completely disgusted. Like, freaking out that there were dead bird pieces in the house, Oh My God!
I am an ovo-vegetarian. I do not eat meat, dairy, or honey, but I will eat eggs as long as they are from my birds only. Everyone else in my family eats meat. I do not understand why they are so disgusted. They put dead factory farm birds, the whole carcasss, on the table and on the dishes and in their mouth, but they get sick at the sight of feathers from a free range bird that died from an illness? I pointed this out to them and they got to mumbling and "but that is different, those are feathers...". All birds have feathers.
What do people think? That flesh just appears on the shelves of Wal-Mart? It is a creature, that had feelings and a brain and desires. It did not want to die, and I am sure it did not want to live the life it was forced to. If people cannot accept that, why do they eat meat at all? They seem to think they are being nice or an animal lover when they do not kill an animal, and instead buy a faceless one from the store. But that is so much worse!
And my family acts like they are disgusted by the chickens. They all eat the eggs, but if I get a sick chicken that needs to come in the house to stay warm or get a bath in the winter or get medical treatment, they act sicked out that a nasty chicken would come into the house. Yet they eat the eggs that come out of that "nasty" chicken's butt. Uh-huh....
People are so disconnected as to where the stuff that goes into their mouth came from. I am not for eating animals, that is obvious. But the people that say they are want nothing to do with the animal when it was living, and they do not want to see or hear anything that is related to the animals dying. Why do they lie to themselves like this? I blame factory farming in part, and people's natural compassion, but seriously?
Excuse me if I offend, but I just had to vent.
After all that was done, I scalded the skin and plucked the feathers from it. I figured I would use them in a pillow because I really liked Toadstool, and he would be missed. I went into the kitchen with the bag of feathers and a bucket and made sure there was no skin clinging to the feathers, putting the pieces in the bucket. My family walked in on this and were completely disgusted. Like, freaking out that there were dead bird pieces in the house, Oh My God!
I am an ovo-vegetarian. I do not eat meat, dairy, or honey, but I will eat eggs as long as they are from my birds only. Everyone else in my family eats meat. I do not understand why they are so disgusted. They put dead factory farm birds, the whole carcasss, on the table and on the dishes and in their mouth, but they get sick at the sight of feathers from a free range bird that died from an illness? I pointed this out to them and they got to mumbling and "but that is different, those are feathers...". All birds have feathers.
What do people think? That flesh just appears on the shelves of Wal-Mart? It is a creature, that had feelings and a brain and desires. It did not want to die, and I am sure it did not want to live the life it was forced to. If people cannot accept that, why do they eat meat at all? They seem to think they are being nice or an animal lover when they do not kill an animal, and instead buy a faceless one from the store. But that is so much worse!
And my family acts like they are disgusted by the chickens. They all eat the eggs, but if I get a sick chicken that needs to come in the house to stay warm or get a bath in the winter or get medical treatment, they act sicked out that a nasty chicken would come into the house. Yet they eat the eggs that come out of that "nasty" chicken's butt. Uh-huh....
People are so disconnected as to where the stuff that goes into their mouth came from. I am not for eating animals, that is obvious. But the people that say they are want nothing to do with the animal when it was living, and they do not want to see or hear anything that is related to the animals dying. Why do they lie to themselves like this? I blame factory farming in part, and people's natural compassion, but seriously?
Excuse me if I offend, but I just had to vent.
