SC - Personal Confession

[Alderton, Philippa]

Well, we all have to learn some time ;-)

That's a good part of the reason I want to teach the butchering class- too
many of us just don't realize what is edible on an animal. I pretty well
impressed the fellow who was teaching me to butcher the lamb (had always
been told that lambs were different from any other animal, so I believed
them until I found someone I could trust to show me) when, having brought
two 5 gallon buckets to dispose of my offal, he only half-filled one with
the intestines and blood anf gall-bladder and feet and such because I had a
use for everything else- I left the blood and intestines because I wasn't
going to make sausage, but I kept the hide for tanning, the stomach for a
haggis, along with most of the internal organs, the head was split for
tongue and brains, etc. Now that I've seen recipes for feet and such, next
time I won't leave that much......

While I hate killing, I believe it is my responsibility as a meat eater to
understand and realize fully what I'm doing every time I eat meat- my way of
pointing that up to myself is to hunt and/or butcher every year. If there
comes a time I can't do it, I'll quit eating meat.

Trust me- it's never easy, though I can and will make it look that way.


Phlip

phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.



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