yup...I try to ignore it...but sometimes gets me mad. At least my birds are happy healthy and treated well before they are "AX'd"YEAH its its those same people that "need" all those poles and harvested wood for their products!
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yup...I try to ignore it...but sometimes gets me mad. At least my birds are happy healthy and treated well before they are "AX'd"YEAH its its those same people that "need" all those poles and harvested wood for their products!
I follow the Starving Off The Land blog, and there has been a lot of discussion about how just about everyone who chooses to kill their own meat or even meet the animals they are going to eat seems to get the same reactions from their fellow meat-eaters. They act like there is something disgusting, unethical or shameful about taking a DIY approach to meat. The message behind questions like "how do you not get attached" or "how can you kill an animal?" is "there is something wron with you!".Darn I was trying to capture the quote you responded to...because it is true. Many people have told me they prefer to buy their chicken in the store. Many have given me SH** for raising chickens and turkeys and killing them for food. Usually the guilt trip..."how do you not get attached?" or "how can you kill an animal?"
my usual response is I raise them for food, it doesn't mean that I don't like them, they are fun to watch and have around, I enjoy them, but life is a cycle everything has purpose, I am so appreciative that I am able to be a part of it. We all have a function yet people are so far removed from ACTUAL LIFE I don't know if they really understand what preservation and conservation really mean.
Now I understand that this kind of lifestyle isn't for everyone and that's totally fine, but I really wish the environmentalists, vegetarians would stop with the guilt trips!
Here ! Here! when I ate my turkey last year I swore I would never buy another store bought turkey again, if I could help it! So i plan to raise my own turkeys every year and since it's easier to raise several than just 1 or 2 I figure I'll donate a few to local shelters.I follow the Starving Off The Land blog, and there has been a lot of discussion about how just about everyone who chooses to kill their own meat or even meet the animals they are going to eat seems to get the same reactions from their fellow meat-eaters. They act like there is something disgusting, unethical or shameful about taking a DIY approach to meat. The message behind questions like "how do you not get attached" or "how can you kill an animal?" is "there is something wron with you!".
I have started being rude to the people who tell me that they would never eat at my house because I eat my own chickens, and saying, "Good! More for me!" I am not ashamed of anything I do to raise my own food, and my homegrown chickens are high quality meat that is better than anything you can find on a styrofoam tray in the store. I am not going to beg people to try it!
where did you get your plucker, cones and scalder???
like ron white say, you can't fix stupidI know what you mean. My father is a logger and sells utility poles and other wood products. When people from an urban or suburban area come to where I live and talk trash about loggers, or say that no trees should be harvested... I know a lot of logging operations now totally rape the landscape and cause other environmental problems. My dad practiced sustainable forestry. He was a better conservationist than any "summer person" could ever dream of being. Then when you visit their house they have wood furniture and use paper products. My dad has a bumper sticker that reads, "If you object to logging, then use plastic toilet paper." People have no idea. They think they're being "green" by using corn plastic plates instead of the petroleum based ones. Just wash the dang dishes, it's better for everyone.
The ones who are the worst to me about processing these birds are not vegetarians. Many veggies at least say to me, "at least you're giving these animals a better life". When (meat eating) people are offended by hunting, I always ask them, "what do you think that deer has eaten it's entire life?" Then, "What has that CAFO cow you ate for dinner eaten its whole life?" "How did both of them live." For me, I do this out of respect for the animals, as ironic it may sound to some.
I picked up the equipment. My plucker, cone stand, and scalder are all set up for tomorrow.
Quote: true story!
Here ! Here! when I ate my turkey last year I swore I would never buy another store bought turkey again, if I could help it! So i plan to raise my own turkeys every year and since it's easier to raise several than just 1 or 2 I figure I'll donate a few to local shelters.