Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
I spent the entire day yesterday slaughtering chickens. It isn’t my favorite job, but if you want to eat chicken, that’s what has to happen. When you do enough of them you start to see things in a way you never could if your entire life is spent ordering your chicken from a drive trough or buying it wrapped in plastic at the supermarket. You may have a vague idea of the parts, but you don’t really know how the animal is constructed, what the dying process is like, where all the systems fit together inside the bird and how to disassemble them in order to turn it into a meal.
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