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How long did it take you to do those birds?
We'll have to do that next year..we're a bit out of practice.
This week a predator showed up and took out my turken rooster and a hen.  I 
loved that big ol' rooster!  The girls have quit laying.  Last night, I 
thought I heard a fox.   This predator had the MO of a possum, but I 
wonder...could it have been a fox?

We are still eating sausage from pigs 3 years ago.  We used to do two pigs 
every other year, but now that it is just the two of us, it lasts longer.

And lastly, people should realize that while eating meat involves killing, so 
does eating plants.  We must kill to eat. We must destroy habitats to make 
rice paddies, wheat and corn fields, etc just as we destroy habitats to make 
pastures for meat animals.  When mankind stopped hunting and gathering and 
moving with the seasons/food, when he settled in one place and began growing 
his food, he began the long cycle of habitat destruction that we see today.  
That's killing, too.  I'm not trying to start an argument, just trying to 
bring balance to the equation.

Akka B

--- On Sat, 8/2/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:


I just butchered 25 chickens yesterday.


Ate pork ribs from last years
pig for lunch. I have several kid goats that are meat on the hoof.
Eating meat involves killing, somehow it seems better for me when I
take responsibility for the whole process myself.

Rob - Va
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> How long did it take you to do those birds?

4 people and a plucker. 2 hours tops.

> And lastly, people should realize that while eating meat involves killing, 
> so does eating plants.  We > must kill to eat.

I'm on an organic gardening list where someone brought up that perhaps
on some level, plants do feel. On some level they may feel pain when
we kill them. The moderator stopped the discussion short because he
saw a big war coming discussing that one!

Rob - Va