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Do you eat chicken from the store?
Very very rarely, I do. Not so much lately. Later on in a post I mention that I haven't eaten chicken (other than when my mom bought it, once) in months. I honestly can't remember the last time I bought chicken from the store. And I have more of a problem with store bought chicken, then anyone raising them on a small scale for food. The food industry treats meat birds very badly, but I think everyone here that raises meat chickens at least gives them a decent life before they become dinner.
I know I'm being a big baby about it. It's my own fault for seeing chickens as pets. I don't see cows or pigs in the same way, at all. I've been around them on farms and they look at me, and I think "dinner." Not so with chickens. I see "scrambled eggs!" from them, LOL.
I'm looking into local farms that raise and slaughter on a small scale. I feel like a massive hypocrite, but thinking about killing one of the chickens I raised makes me want to cry. I'm working on it, but I doubt I'll ever be able to slaughter my own food. In the mean time, I have NO plans on getting chicken from the store. Maybe I'll be a whole one from a local farm, if I really crave chicken. (Which I honestly don't.)