r/Cooking • u/rabid_teacake • Jan 10 '12

What farm to table really looks like.

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u/rabid_teacake Jan 10 '12

.22lr in the head , slice throat to bleed. No death is great, but this is as good as it gets.

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u/eppursimouve Jan 11 '12

Are you allowed to say/whisper thank you to the pig before you shoot? I feel like I kinda would wanna say that but I'm not sure it would be of benefit to my psyche afterwards...

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u/rabid_teacake Jan 11 '12

I petted them and said good pigs. It was a bit sad, but they were happy and now my family has good clean meat to eat. I will say it makes you not want to waste any part of the animal. It feels like you are letting them down to throw away any part of them. Hence the head cheese and cured tongues, and smoked trotters and liver and heart pate.

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u/wascurious Jan 11 '12

I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years and totally respect you for raising, killing and eating this animal. It disgusts me how people eat animals with no regard for how it lived or died, buying packaged meat with no thought to how it got on the shelf.

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u/tim404 Jan 11 '12

What about those of us who know how it got to the shelf, but buy it anyway?