Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Puddin Fluff]

I have started to seriously work out in the mornings so I have been making myself eat protein before I get on the elliptical.
Once I got over the " I work too hard to workout" mentality, I do have more energy.... Or, maybe it is because I am finally eating breakfast.
I decided not to go willingly into old age. That puppy has rejuvenated us all.

I was a pretty regular exercizer until I started a full time job last fall. Now I can't seem to get to it.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Last summer we started a running club at at the place I worked. Every Wednesday before lunch, we would go for a 7km run.

 

[ocap]

This one was threatening to fall and has been dying for years. I think waiting until the ticks are asleep before cutting. <hands on hips emoticon>
I have a Mora fishing knife. They call it this: "Fishing Comfort Fillet 090" and describe it as "Short filleting knife with a blade of stainless steel"
It's a dream to process with; I'm looking for a different way to kill them though. I like putting them in the killing cone, but the throat cutting....I close my eyes and turn my head (after placing the knife and making sure the knife's path is clear).

I hope I never get to the point that it is easy to take the life of anything !!!!!!
that being said I like to eat chicken, therein lies the dilemma
another way to kill? maybe a guillotine

 

[vehve]

Quote: I find that it makes it a lot easier, knowing that the animal has had a chance to live a good life, and that the meat will be treated with respect. One thing that angers me, is when some hunters just take the best cuts and leave the rest of the carcass behind, or people who only take the breast of a bird.

 

[3goodeggs]

My son says we can not raise meat birds until he moves out.
He has the same dilemma of being a die hard carnivore who can not stand to see an animal hurt.
I may have done that to him.. When he was young, I told him hat we need to respect the animals who gave their lives for our nourishment. Nothing must be wasted, and that we owe it to the animals to do good work with what they gave us.

It may have been too deep for a little kid that that thought the supermarket somehow "made" meat.
He will be mid bite of rib and say, "I should really be a vegetarian...but they don't get ribs."

 

[vehve]

My son says we can not raise meat birds until he moves out.
He has the same dilemma of being a die hard carnivore who can not stand to see an animal hurt.
I may have done that to him.. When he was young, I told him hat we need to respect the animals who gave their lives for our nourishment. Nothing must be wasted, and that we owe it to the animals to do good work with what they gave us.

It may have been too deep for a little kid that that thought the supermarket somehow "made" meat.
He will be mid bite of rib and say, "I should really be a vegetarian...but they don't get ribs."

Or bacon.

The neighbor brought their kids over when we where butchering our first roo, and had explained why we had to do that to him (he was being aggressive towards people). The kids are 6 and 9 years old. They took it really well, although I'm told the son (the older one) cried about it a bit in the evening. But they got to experience where food comes (minus the graphic parts, we didn't allow them over before he was plucked and we had removed the head and feet).

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan laws about hunting are pretty strict. You have to harvest and take out all of the meat, before you are allowed to take out the hide and head.

With squirrel you have to take the hide OR eat it, you don't have to take both.

You do not have to eat or skin mice, shrews, or voles.

 

[vehve]

Alaskan laws about hunting are pretty strict. You have to harvest and take out all of the meat, before you are allowed to take out the hide and head.

With squirrel you have to take the hide OR eat it, you don't have to take both.

You do not have to eat or skin mice, shrews, or voles.

Not feeling up to enjoying a lovely mouse kebab?

 

[sourland]

Alaskans eat squirrel skins? Explains a lot ------------------------

squirrely

 

[vehve]

Alaskans eat squirrel skins? Explains a lot ------------------------

squirrely

sour, maybe the taters don't grow so well in the snow, so they need to resort to other options