really?
well...I guess some only see these animals in the grocer all cut up and wrapped neatly in cellophane...
But I have lived with them my whole life....chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, goats and cows...
They become individuals, take on very human traits the more time they spend around us...gain more "individual soul" and less "herd or collective soul" ...
they become family...
It has always been a hard thing eating ones family though...
at least for me...
Laying hens for eggs , rather than roaster hens for killing ...
duck eggs, goose eggs, and goats milk are all I am in it for from my "extended family"
I let them live long healthy lives past their useful output...
and when they die naturally ...well ...if they have enough good meat on them...then...I honour them by making of them a good dinner ...