Good morning Heidi, I'm in agreement that
more people should raise their own meat. Mainly for the fact you know what
you're getting and has not been indused chemically for faster groth. Our
area is a big poultry growing area and it used to be the chicken houses could
get a chicken out to processing in six weeks from a little hatchling and its
down to 5 weeks now. How are they doing it? injesting more growth
hormones and antibiotics and who knows what else in terms of chemicals.
Whenever i tried to raise my chickens in a cage it took months and they were
still skinny and not as plump as the stores. I also know chicken farmers
that will not eat their crops because of the conditions they live under and the
chemicals they eat.
Cows, pigs and sheep are probably done in the same
way, so any organic home raising programs would pobably be better for you than
the store bought.
I remember growing up in West Virginia and doing
the slaughter and using every thing from the carcass somewhat like the Indians
did to their to the buffalo and others. They did not waste anything.
Now getting people to do this will probably not evolve, but those that do will
have a better and more naturally wholesome plate of meat for sunday
dinner.
Tho our 3 children were raised to a limited
slaughter, none do them practice that today. I even fed them fresh from
the cow milk because it was cheaper than regular milk, but it was real
mild. I think i turned them off to that approach from the time
we were going to Disneyworld for Christmas and had to slaughter 20 chikens or
more before we left. I think that ruined it for them as they don't do the
practice of home-raised meat. ts
Having grown up in a situation where our family did its own slaughter,
I'm with Juli (I think it was Juli) on this one--I MUCH prefer to eat meat
that I slaughtered myself, because I know where it came from. Our wild
game and grass-fed beef tastes a WHOLE lot better than what you buy in the
grocery store.
In earlier times, most people did their own slaughtering, so to
speak--and most people ate meat, whenever they could get hold of any...
Heidi
I have a lot of Friends who are Vegetarians and
always respect their view points and rationale. I have also commented
to RC in the past about if more people had to do their own slaughter, there
would be more vegetarians.
