Rant: DBF posted meatie pic on FB, now there are haters

[Christie Rhae]

ugh.... I just know I am gonna raise meat birds one day. I can feel the day growing closer. I am trying not to think about how awful supermarket meat is but I can feel it creeping closer to my consciousness. lol
For now I am trying to buy local. Console myself that at least it wasn't processed 3000 miles away.
I am sure processing meat birds is not as awful as I imagine...or maybe it is.

 

[chickenfeverforever]

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Watching Food Inc changed my life. Before I made the choice to raise my own meat, After watching this I did what you do an bought local or only organic meat. So I started to call local butcher shops. I asked them where they get their beef from. Every last one of them bought it from out west and had it shipped in. Don't always assume theat "fresh" looking meat at your local butcher is any different then Walmart. The same big slaughter house out west services almost all the large chain grocery stores including your local butcher. Crazy huh? My local butcher does butcher local meat but you have to raise it yourself. Its amazing how much you can learn from just asking a few questions and being open to the answers. I love meat and knew I could never give it up. Not an option for our family. But now, I am aware. And its powerful.

 

[Squishypuff]

I have a few FB folks who give me a time because I'm being "cruel" or "heartless." Personally, I love knowing my birds lived on pasture with fresh water, good food, and the occasional handful of popcorn as a treat. They lived a good life, and were killed humanely. I'm not ashamed of it.

 

[Sillystunt]

ahhhh whatever! atleast you know where your chicken comes from! I would not worry about what people think at all. i am on facebook, i don't mind....... add me heather richards-blalock

people think chicken nuggets ccome from the chicken nugget fairy. vegatarians are mineral & vit deficant so they tend to be flaky( ok, i am jusy teasing cause my sister in law is vegan but come on!!!!!!)

and for the post about the hogs.......... i wish you were closer cause i would buy some meat!!

i am a sissy & don't kill mine cause they look at me funny BUT i would never knock someone for doing so. it is their right to eat fresh, humanly raised & killed chicken!!!!!

tell them to choke on a chicken bone.......

 

[laughingdog52]

I think you are very brave. I bought straight run chicks once, over 30 years ago. It was my first chicken project. I loved the RIR pullets, but the white roos were, sorry to say, too dumb to live. It didn't help that I was 8.999 mos pregnent with child 1. My elderly neighbor came over to help(she was so great), but to this day, I don't ever want to do that again(process the roos). I can still smell boiling water and poop. I rarely eat chick, by the way. I am sure there must be an easier way to do it, but I have a friend in the country who will take any roos(can't have them in town). She says skinning is easier. Love the website!!!! Love to just sit and watch my chickens do their thing!!!

 

[Cryssie_Bou]

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Watching Food Inc changed my life. Before I made the choice to raise my own meat, After watching this I did what you do an bought local or only organic meat. So I started to call local butcher shops. I asked them where they get their beef from. Every last one of them bought it from out west and had it shipped in. Don't always assume theat "fresh" looking meat at your local butcher is any different then Walmart. The same big slaughter house out west services almost all the large chain grocery stores including your local butcher. Crazy huh? My local butcher does butcher local meat but you have to raise it yourself. Its amazing how much you can learn from just asking a few questions and being open to the answers. I love meat and knew I could never give it up. Not an option for our family. But now, I am aware. And its powerful.

that is soo true.. I have bought from the same butcher shop my parents used and actually supplied so I feel safe in using them and i also know their suppliers as they are local farmers.. and they only buy within that 100 radius.. which i think is great.. When the owner retired this year he sold it to a group of the workers who had been working there for as long as I can remember and they plan one keeping the traditions alive


Cryssie

 

[la-pro]

I wanna see the pictures!

 

[lemkoboxer]

The disconnect between people and where there meat comes from is sad IMO. It's a conversation I've had with many people, and do my best to educate the "haters."

So many people want shrink wrapped, processed meat that looks nothing like the original animal so they don't have to think about where it came from. But guess what, it still came from a living breathing animal. Personally, I like to know where my food comes from and how it was grown, raised, or prepared. It is what it is, people need to learn to accept that and have respect for the animals that provided the meat they eat.

I loved raising meaties for the first time last year, and will do so again soon for the next years supply of chicken.

 

[orientphoenix]

yeah i i ate some oriental games today i think

 

[Avalon1984]

I used to be a vegetarian for 12 years before I met my now- husband. He said that it would mean much for him if I started to eat meat with him and of course it tasted good. We did agree that if I were to eat meat we will try and either buy locally raised and processed, or do it ourselves. So we did our first two roosters this weekend and he helped all the way. I can say now that it was not bad at all and I cannot wait to do more. I wish I would have been able to taste my first ones but we already have a waiting line of people wanting to buy our chicken for premium prices- and whatever our customers don't want (gizzards, feet, necks) goes to a local dog trainer who buys it by the pound. This way the roosters had a fulfilled life and even after their passing, nothing was wasted- except the feathers

Now I want to compare that to the life of one of those sad mass production facility chickens. If your friends are not understanding why you do that and why this is the better way to do it, then maybe you should not worry about them at all. You are doing great. I wish you the best of luck with your pig adventure