We don’t do meat rabbits. It’s so hot here they are not able to live through the summer without special accommodations we don’t have. It is something we will consider in the future.

Folks who don’t know how to raise food won’t eat very well pretty soon.

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We’ll have to learn how to do the slautering though. Maybe they have classes somewhere.

Blessings,
Linda<

As far as my slaughtering skills go, I usually do not do the “killing” part – although I will watch. I could do it if I had to. My husband and boys usually take care of that, and they make sure it is quick and painless – not only for the animal’s sake – but also for the flavor of the meat. Everything from there on out I’ve helped with. Perhaps it helped that my father raised meat rabbits on the mission field and I always helped him with that.

I think the problem with people’s reactions is that we’ve become desensitized about food, like the previous commenter stated. Food comes in a package, and you cook it. I’ve heard of some children amazed that poultry comes from chickens, that eggs come from chickens, that beef is actually from cows, etc. This wasn’t the case not too long ago when the US was more of an agrarian society. AND there is far too much emphasis on pets, I think. Pets are fine and good, but I see that pets are almost replacing children – and I wonder if that doesn’t contribute somewhat to people not viewing children as the blessings that God’s Word calls them…

Oh, and yes, we hunt the squirrels on our property and we do eat them. They are delicious baked with BBQ sauce over them at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes!

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We’re tryin’ hard to figure ways to raise enough food for our whole family year round. What a lot of work that’ll be, so much to learn, but we’ll never get there if we don’t start where we are.

I guess the reason folks are so sensitive about animal death is that we are blind about it, in our culture. We don’t have to see it. It’s hidden, and out of sight-out of mind. Lots of folks go their whole lives without giving a thought to just what their food was and how it came about before it was on the shelf in the grocery. Maybe folks don’t wanna know, I wish I didn’t.

I believe it is FAR more humane to raise an animal with love and the best comfort we can then kill it quickly ourselves at home. It also gives me inexpensive, organic meat. I’d prefer to control it ourselves, rather than just letting someone else do the ‘dirty work’. When we get some land it will be cattle, sheep and goats too as well as hunting wallabies. All up, our dogs will eat better than some people do once it is all up and running and we will know we are eating happy critters rather than closing our eyes and hoping (i.e. we will be being good stewards). I think it shows MORE care and respect toward animals, not less.

Other people used to have a similar attitude when they found out that I worked at the RSPCA as a teen and assisted with euthanasia. Yes, I love animals. Yes, putting down 52 kittens in one day/dealing with animal cruelty and neglect/putting down a dog I have come to love just because I can’t find it a home is horrible. The thought of what would happen to them if it wasn’t done is worse.

Hmmm, off topic rant there sorry!

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