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RE: [RC] Eating Living Things - heidiIn my experience, what spoils most of us and keeps us from
slaughtering our own is time and convenience. It isn't as healthy
to go buy it from the supermarket, but the food is
tantalizingly THERE, which means I don't have to milk a cow twice a
day, or spend a day cutting and wrapping a beef, or whatever.
When I was a kid, the neighbor knew how to milk a cow, too, so
if we went away for a few days, it was no big deal to get someone to do
chores. In this day and age, it is tough enough to get reliable
help to just feed horses when we travel--even here in this rural area,
finding someone who could milk a cow in our absence is nigh on
impossible. We do have a mobile butcher, so getting a cow
slaughtered and processed isn't out of the question--although for me,
it is still easier to buy a half or a quarter from someone else.
So I don't think my upbringing put me off to any of this--but our
current culture sure makes it easy to fall into the rut of simply
buying food at the supermarket instead of taking the time and trouble
to raise it. (And that is true of vegetable gardens, too--when I
was a kid, ALL our veggies were homegrown as well. LOTS of
labor.)
Heidi
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