Back in the old days, people raised their own food. They grew vegetables and raised animals. You wanted chicken and green beans for dinner, you went out and picked the beans and cleaned them and put them in a pot to boil. Then you would walk out to the chicken coop, pick out a chicken, kill it, gut it, pluck it, and voila, you had your chicken to cook for dinner.
Most people these days would not have any idea how to pick a bean, how to tell if its ripe, how to clean it or how to cook it. They have spent their entire life eating precooked green beans from cans or frozen in bags. Almost all people would not be willing to kill a chicken to have the meat for dinner, not to mention they would have no idea how to gut it, pluck it or prepare it for cooking. They would be horrified if you even suggested they do such a thing.
This is how removed many of us have become from the source of our food.
The hamburger that you picked up from Wendy's was once a cow, did you know? He or she was furry, with big floppy ears and said "moooooooo!" The same goes for that filet you paid a ridiculous price for at a restaurant last week. And that thinly sliced roast beef you put on your child's sandwich for lunch. All come from animals that once walked on hooves and ate grass. Now before you start to think that this is an article that will try to convince you to become a vegetarian, that is totally not what this is about.
| What it is about is this... Would you kill a chicken to have for dinner? Yes, kill it......chop off it's head, bleed it, pluck it, cut it open and remove the guts, cut off his feet and wash it ? Could you do that? Would you? What if that was the only way that you would be able to get meat to eat.......to kill it yourself? What if you were starving? Would that make a difference? Would you do it then? |  |
The reason I am asking all these questions is to (hopefully) make see how far removed most people have become from real food. Strange isn't it that something our forefathers (and mothers) took for granted would be such a source of horror for people today. Makes you wonder what would happen if something stopped all those neat little packages we buy at the grocery store from being there. How would people survive?
It's something to think about.
Jade :)
It's something to think about.
Jade :)
These are two of the most useful books that I have.
All the information you need on preparing your own meat and poultry.
All the information you need on preparing your own meat and poultry.
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