Have you ever killed your food?

[ohiosmith]

Growing up we usually had chickens, rabbits, turkeys, and ducks that my siblings and I had to help slaughter.

My great uncle had one of the largest farms in Ohio. When I stayed there during summers I had to help kill and butcher geese, sheep, beef cattle, oxen, and pigs.

If you didn't help you didn't eat.

[ThomCat]

1. Yes.

Chickens, Rabbits, and Fish. My dad took care of the Cows, Pigs and Goats.

[Lyric]

2. Yes, but not on a farm.

I grew up poor in rural West Virginia. Deer hunting was something we all learned to do the minute we were old enough to handle the recoil from a gun.

Deer meat is damned good, too. A lot of it can be tough and stringy, but it grinds into burger and sausage nicely, and the tenderloin is to die for when it's sliced, coated in flour, salt, and pepper, then fried.

[Lyric]

6. Oh--and fish of course.

Lots of good fish in the rivers around here. Channel cats are probably my favorite for eating, but the trout in the streams and creeks are worth the work of getting too.

/Brandy, who is not the least bit afraid to put her own worm (or grasshopper) on the hook, and knows that slices of hot dogs are excellent catfish bait.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. yeah, it was a neighborhood thing in my part of New Bedford

a couple of families would go in on a pig, then when it was ready, usually a year later, they'd slaughter it and everyone on the street would get together and butch it then spend the afternoon making Linguica and Chourice sausage links.

More personally though, I've had a saltwater fishing pole since I was 4 and every season there is always something to catch for dinner. Not to mention summers quoahogging and clamming, or spending the afternoon loberstering with my friend and his grandfather.

[Gormy Cuss]

30. Oh man. Homemade Portuguese sausages?

I've never had them homemade but I love both kinds. My New Bedfid friend/family connections were all from the wrong side of the ethnic tracks.

I thought that I'd have to give them up when I moved to CA but it turns out this area had a big Portuguese immigrant community so I can still get decent sausage.

[Xipe Totec]

43. Please, I must have the recipes

for Linguica and Chourice.

I'll trade you a recipe for Mexican Chorizo.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Sure, if you include fish n/t

[QMPMom]

5. Yes.

chickens, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons. Have helped skin and ... gut ... deer before taking to the butcher. (My sister was a weenie and refused to help her husband when he bagged some deer. I helped him with the gross stuff.) Helped raise numerous feeder calves for butchering but we took them to the slaughterhouse for the killing and such.

[Squeech]

7. Yup

Fish. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't one of those people who couldn't face the consequences of my actions, so I cooked and ate a fish I caught myself.

Then I spent several hours vomiting. I don't know whether the problem was my ethics or my food prep.

[azmouse]

8. Nope.

I have to confess that I would be a vegetarian if I had to kill my own food. I just couldn't do it.

[jobycom]

9. You bet. Carrots, potatoes, sugar cane... with my bare hands sometimes.

And yes, I've killed animals to eat them, as a kid. Mostly fish. My father did the slaughtering of the chickens and other various red-blooded animals he and my brothers caught hunting. I never actually shot anything big enough to eat. But I watched them cleaned, sometimes, and even ate a rooster I had named.

Now I'm vegetarian. Not really connected to that, it was long afterwards. I think, and I hate to agree with Ted Nugent here, that there is something more spiritual about being involved in where your food comes from, rather than buying it already dead. By killing the animal, you at least have to feel the emotions involved in the kill. It makes you more connected to the world, to your food chain, to the cost of your meal.

Maybe that is part of why I'm vegetarian after all--I realized the cost, and didn't want to pay it anymore.

[ohiosmith]

10. "Carrots, potatoes, sugar cane... with my bare hands sometimes."

Murderer!

[jobycom]

11. dupe

[jobycom]

12. They didn't feel a thing.

[conscious evolution]

44. veggies are not veggies

because they love animals.They are veggies cause they hate vegetables. :hide:

[BikeWriter]

31. Think of the baby soy beans!

[jobycom]

49. As long as they can't think of me, I'm fine with it.

:)

[MissMillie]

13. Just fish

when I've gone fishing.

[madinmaryland]

14. If you consider running over it on the highway, then yes!

:puke:

[BarenakedLady]

15. No

And I never will.

[ohiosmith]

17. No pudding for you.

[BarenakedLady]

19. Awwww

I like puddin' :9

[ohiosmith]

21. If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. Thems the rules.

[BarenakedLady]

22. All in all

I really am just another brick in the wall anyway. :shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. Yeah, I kill my own food pretty regularly over the summer.

I eat lots of fish, clams, crabs that I caught. Sometimes my stepdad comes back from scuba diving with lobsters.

The New England coast is awesome. I'd never live inland.

[Redneck Socialist]

18. Yup. I hunt and fish. n/t

[mainegreen]

20. It's called lobster and its damned good!!

[undeterred]

23. I've killed bugs that were in my food

and I've eated live grubs and chocolate covered insects. Hasn't everyone?

[underpants]

24. I usually eat first

before I "kill it"

:evilgrin:

[jmowreader]

39. And now let's talk about The Most Disgusting Food Ever

This makes balut look tame.

In Korea you can go to a restaurant and order "octopus" and they'll bring you a live fucking octopus. It's kinda like those restaurants in Texas where the night's entertainment consists of watching someone trying to eat six pounds of meat in one hour. They bring you a huge tray that has some kimchi, rice, a combat bottle of soju, a bowl of sauce, chopsticks, a knife (this is the only dish in a Korean restaurant that needs one), and this pissed-off live octopus. What you're SUPPOSED to do--no, I never did this--is to slice off a piece of tentacle, dip it in sauce, throw it in your mouth and wash it down with a sip of soju. The highlight was feeling the suction cups grab the back of your throat as it went down. After you've tortured the poor thing enough, they take it back into the kitchen, put it out of its misery, cook it and bring it back out to you.

[cwydro]

25. Well

I've been fishing and oystering, also clamming.

[Burma Jones]

26. yes

chickens, hogs, deer, fish, oysters, crabs, lobsters etc....

we sent the steers out for slaughter and fabrication

[jus_the_facts]

27. I caught fish...but didn't have to gut 'em and cut their heads off....

....remember this freaky video on MTV back in the day?! :D



Fish Heads
**********

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

In the morning
Laughing, happy
Fish Heads
In the evening
Floating in the soup

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

Ask a Fish head
Anything you want to
They won't answer
They can't talk

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

I took a Fish head
Out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay
To get it in

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm
They can't play baseball
They don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers
They don't play drums

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

Rolly polly Fish heads
Are never seen drinking
Cappacino in Italian restaurants
With Oriental women...Yeah

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm...
(Yummm)

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm
YEAH!!!!!!!!!

by Barnes and Barnes
From the album:

Voohbaha!

[cobalt1999]

28. My daughter (8) wants to kill our turkey this year.

We've ordered it from a local farm. They'll do the killing, plucking, and cleaning for us if we want, but my youngest wants us to do it (I may even let her handle the ax). So...this year we'll kill our own bird. My wife is very disturbed by the thought.

To your original question: Oh yes. Fishing, diving for lobsters, crabs, clams, deer hunting, rabbit trapping, hunting.

[BikeWriter]

29. Very much so. In Alaska I lived mostly off the land.

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Yes. And I think everyone who eats meat should do so at least once.

I think the meat eaters really do need to see and experience what it's like to take the life of animal, skin it, and carve it up, in all the noises, blood, and stink.

I think it's the only way to honor the animals we eat, by actually knowing - from a personal, experiential way - what we are doing to them, so that we can give the PROPER thankgsgiving for having them served on our table.

Grocery stores are too goddamn "clean" - buying your meat already cut up and served nicely on a styrofoam tray.

(and yes, I am a meat eater who has killed and done this)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. An excellent post.

:thumbsup:

[cobalt1999]

34. That I agree with.

Meat eaters should catch and kill their own meals every once in a while. It doesn't make you numb to the animals, if anything it makes you appreciate them and their environment more.

Some folks think that when that deer senses you and gets away or that fish manages to work loose, it's disappointing. To me, I smile..they won the contest for the day.

Supermarkets and restaurants detach us from our world.

[El Fuego]

35. Oysters, clams and mussels - they're alive when you cook or eat them.

[Taverner]

36. Does fishing count?

I caught, killed, gutted and then ate a rainbow trout.

It was good but too much work for such little meat.

[ohiosmith]

48. It counts

[Phillycat]

37. Crabs, clams, mussels, lobsters, fish, yes. Mammals, no. nt

[China_cat]

38. Yep.

All the same slaughter plus game.

[NewWaveChick1981]

40. No, the closest I ever came to doing that was going fishing.

I didn't catch anything.

[LeftyMom]

41. I've ripped carrots and potatoes from the earth with bare hands.

:evilgrin:

[LaraMN]

42. No. I couldn't do it.

I can't even handle baiting a hook for fishing.
I don't eat a whole lot of meat, and when I do, I can't stand to think about where it came from. I can't stomach anything on a bone. Same with eggs. Not a judgment call- just my own issues.

[Xipe Totec]

45. Since I was 8 years old

My dad used to come home from the drilling rigs with a baby goat in the back of the truck.

I had the job of taking the goat and a bucket to our neighbor who would butcher it, and keep the pelt as payment. I'd come home with the goat in the bucket.

Learned a lot of anatomy that way.

Since then, I've been a more active participant in the process, and the animals have gotten bigger too.

[pitohui]

46. well yeah

anyone who pulls up an entire onion or garlic plant or a carrot has killed to eat, be that as it may, i can't offhand recall personally killing anything higher up the evolutionary scale than a fish or a soft-shelled crab but as soon as i log off, i'll probably think of something

[YankeyMCC]

47. A frog

The first time I had frog legs. I caught and kill the frog, along with a few other kids at the same camp.

[JVS]

50. I've been known to murder burritos

[mduffy31]

51. If am an avid fisherman and I deer hunt

But this year I can't. The season opens up in the morning here in Wisconsin, but I have to work.

[tigereye]

52. no

unless cooking lobster counts. It still kind of creeps me out. I used to apologize to them when I was a young kid and I actually still do....