Here is an example of easing the reality of the act. Thinning is an accepted and known practice. Harvesting? What are we picking animals off of trees like apples, no we're killing them. Words are funny. George Carlin: Shell Shock is now Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Same thing with kill, one...
In the world today you have to soften kill with cull, no matter how you slice it killing is ugly business that sometimes has to be done. We would take our older healthy birds to auction.