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If you are a city girl could you move to the country for love and be able to cook what you raised or cook what was killed, like a deer?
cooking the chickens you raised or the pigs. do you think it would be too difficult to watch or participate?
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Interesting question.
I would have to answer yes, since I have done this in the past and it's not as difficult as it looks.
When I was young I traveled to the West Bank in Israel and lived in a village with no running water or electricity for over a year. This included eating what we killed or bought live and fresh at the market in Ramallah. I personally took care of the chickens that gave us eggs and a weekly chicken dinner and had no problem killing for the sake of survival. Protein is a precious commodity in the Middle East or any real countryside for that matter. As long as the animals that you raised or hunted were treated with respect and killed as humanly as possible, I see no issue with slaughtering for food. I think the US is desensitized to the fact that we eat meat without thinking where it comes from anyway.
If I were to do this again, it would be a little harder to do only because I am a very extroverted person and a life like the one you mentioned would entail living on the outskirts of society, or maybe even... god forbid, away from a computer!
I would have to answer yes, since I have done this in the past and it's not as difficult as it looks.
When I was young I traveled to the West Bank in Israel and lived in a village with no running water or electricity for over a year. This included eating what we killed or bought live and fresh at the market in Ramallah. I personally took care of the chickens that gave us eggs and a weekly chicken dinner and had no problem killing for the sake of survival. Protein is a precious commodity in the Middle East or any real countryside for that matter. As long as the animals that you raised or hunted were treated with respect and killed as humanly as possible, I see no issue with slaughtering for food. I think the US is desensitized to the fact that we eat meat without thinking where it comes from anyway.
If I were to do this again, it would be a little harder to do only because I am a very extroverted person and a life like the one you mentioned would entail living on the outskirts of society, or maybe even... god forbid, away from a computer!
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December 17, 2009 09:18 PM
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Absolutely not. I don't even like to touch raw chicken from the grocery store ... when I do have chicken, I'm all about pre-marinated boneless white meat fillets :-)
I've been a city-dweller for almost 25 years, but grew up in a rural Midwest town with a population less than 800 people ... though my dad was a grain farmer, livestock farmers were also part of the community. Even as a child being brought up in a world where raising and slaughtering livestock were part of life, I couldn't handle being anywhere near the act of animal slaughter.
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I've been a city-dweller for almost 25 years, but grew up in a rural Midwest town with a population less than 800 people ... though my dad was a grain farmer, livestock farmers were also part of the community. Even as a child being brought up in a world where raising and slaughtering livestock were part of life, I couldn't handle being anywhere near the act of animal slaughter.
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I have been a city girl all my life, and yes it would be hard for me to cook something that I raised, unless it is fish. If somebody else hunts maybe, but I am squeamish so cleaning it would also be a problem for me. Everyone is different though
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