Today I learned how to kill, pluck and prepare a rooster. I think the killing itself is something we in the west are so distant from that we find the act itself repulsive and sickening, but its important to relearn how to prepare your own food and all aspects of it. On a farm you kill what you need to eat. You dont kill for fun. We also try to use the most humane possible way of doing this - ways that are the least stressful for the animal in comparison to factory farmed meat that most people in the western world eat on a daily basis. Meat bought at the supermarket is rarely local and the life of that animal has been, to say the least, horrible. The amount of fossil fuels that has gone into transporting, packaging and cooling the meat and the amount of non biodegradable styrofoam packaging and plastic wrapping that comes with it is a wasteful and unsustainable practice. It is a reminder of how society has long ago become detached from nature. We see our chicken fillets in the meat desk of the supermarket and somehow the connection between a living animal and our food in the toxic wrapping we buy is lost. What happens if the world economy collapses and people dont know how to kill and prepare their own food? Will we go vegetarian by default? We are in the hands of big multinational corporations that control not only our food supply but print money out of thin air and keep us docile by poisoning everything we touch, wear, brush our teeth with, and use to wash our clothes and bodies. You name it - everything you think of contains poison that does not need to be there! And soon enough clean drinking water will not even be a human right anymore. Bottom line, if we cant kill and prepare our own food that we know has had a good life on our own or a neighbours farm, that is organic, sustainable, and part of the life we had always lived before the coming of industrialism and the discovery of oil, then we should stop eating meat at all! If you find following pictures disturbing in anyway take a look at a documentary called Earthlings for perspective, i will post a a youtube link in the commentary field!
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:36:20 +0000
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