Ghost
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When I did meat rabbits about 10 years ago, this subject fascinated me. That is when you are eating rabbit, do you know which rabbit was used to make the meal? When discussing the topic on RabbitsOnTheWeb, I found two distinct camp of rabbit people.
One group took steps to randomize the meat, they would put all the meat in the freezer and mix them up. Sometimes they would get a spouse or family member to randomly pick a bag, so that they did not know which rabbit they were cooking. There was a second group of people that would label each bag as to which rabbit it, so they would know which rabbit they were eating.
As it turns out I am in the second camp of rabbit people. When I shared the rabbitry with my neighbors Cindy and Tom. I told Cindy that the rabbits were going to be designated fryer#1, fryer#2 etc., she still wound up naming our fryers. This made it easier :shock: to know what to write on the bag.
Part of the reason I found it was easier for me to know who I was eating had to do with, my memory of certain aspects of the rabbitry operations. I knew were meat came from on an intellectual level but, I did not grow-up on a farm. From an hands-on operation, killing something like a rabbit was well outside on my experience. So, when the memory of say killing Groucho would come to mind, I would also make myself remember the lovely stew I made from him. This gave the killing contest. I knew that I was not just going on some crazed rabbit killing spree, no instead, each rabbit died for a reason. I had to remember that when I eat meat animals had to die, even if I never saw the animals while they were still alive. When I remembered how good eating rabbit n' dumplings was, I also remembered that in order to have it, a rabbit would have to die. My thought at the time were ,"This is such a delicious meal, too bad that Chunk had to die to make it.". As I was eating, it seamed, I was honoring Chunk as he fulfilled his role as a food animal.
Any thoughts on the subject?
ps. I just remember our first kindle, We were showing off our five tiny rabbit pups to my cousin, because she wanted to know about our meat rabbitry. I had to remind my cousin (and myself) that these were not pets. So I was saying rabbit dishes at random (don't remember the exact dishes). I would say… This little black one is for rabbit stew. This other black one is for rabbit and dumplings. This gray and white one is for rabbit stuffed with corn bred dressing. This one with the cool pattern on his back will be fried rabbit with gravy. And this last little fella is for shredded rabbit meat sandwiches.
pps. I thought of a cute way to designate an animal or group of animals that the owner was "ok with" using as a food supply. The euphemism/cute saying is "furry edibles". Example: We have some rabbits in the back, they are not pets, we think of them more as furry edibles.
One group took steps to randomize the meat, they would put all the meat in the freezer and mix them up. Sometimes they would get a spouse or family member to randomly pick a bag, so that they did not know which rabbit they were cooking. There was a second group of people that would label each bag as to which rabbit it, so they would know which rabbit they were eating.
As it turns out I am in the second camp of rabbit people. When I shared the rabbitry with my neighbors Cindy and Tom. I told Cindy that the rabbits were going to be designated fryer#1, fryer#2 etc., she still wound up naming our fryers. This made it easier :shock: to know what to write on the bag.
Part of the reason I found it was easier for me to know who I was eating had to do with, my memory of certain aspects of the rabbitry operations. I knew were meat came from on an intellectual level but, I did not grow-up on a farm. From an hands-on operation, killing something like a rabbit was well outside on my experience. So, when the memory of say killing Groucho would come to mind, I would also make myself remember the lovely stew I made from him. This gave the killing contest. I knew that I was not just going on some crazed rabbit killing spree, no instead, each rabbit died for a reason. I had to remember that when I eat meat animals had to die, even if I never saw the animals while they were still alive. When I remembered how good eating rabbit n' dumplings was, I also remembered that in order to have it, a rabbit would have to die. My thought at the time were ,"This is such a delicious meal, too bad that Chunk had to die to make it.". As I was eating, it seamed, I was honoring Chunk as he fulfilled his role as a food animal.
Any thoughts on the subject?
ps. I just remember our first kindle, We were showing off our five tiny rabbit pups to my cousin, because she wanted to know about our meat rabbitry. I had to remind my cousin (and myself) that these were not pets. So I was saying rabbit dishes at random (don't remember the exact dishes). I would say… This little black one is for rabbit stew. This other black one is for rabbit and dumplings. This gray and white one is for rabbit stuffed with corn bred dressing. This one with the cool pattern on his back will be fried rabbit with gravy. And this last little fella is for shredded rabbit meat sandwiches.
pps. I thought of a cute way to designate an animal or group of animals that the owner was "ok with" using as a food supply. The euphemism/cute saying is "furry edibles". Example: We have some rabbits in the back, they are not pets, we think of them more as furry edibles.
but then if we eat a named rabbit he always asks me which one it was and will ask 'wait what did we make out of harley?' and similar things so i guess it's not THAT weird to him
