I have this thing about food. I like to meet my food, or at least know the people who have cared for it. I like eating happy pigs. There is accountability that way for all of us.
Have you ever toured a factory or mass producing meat place? The animals can be forced fed, kept in small pens, force bred, treated like animals, and then lined up for slaughter. Conveyor belt processing of their carcass into food. Chicken nuggets for example: made from chicken slurry. OMG. Yuck.
Anyway, we found this great event through an announcemnt on our locl homeschool idea board: the farm crawl.
This is Lily meeting the father of our Thanksgiving dinner (I hope we order in time!)
This is Lily viewing the flock in which we hope to get our heritage breed Turkey. Yum.
I'll post more, see the following posts. :)
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Monday, 22 October 2007
Farm Crawling: Meeting Thanksgiving Dinner
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Farm Crawl 2010 Review,
Greener Pastures
Mother, wife, sister, friend. This is our second year on the farm, a dream we've had since we were first married. We unschool, AP parent, and grow our own food (or try to).
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This is a really cool presentation - and the idea of being responsible for your (meat-eating) actions resonates with me.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I'm quite ready for it, but one I admire, none the less.
Stephanie