How disconnected from your food are you?

[Drake Tungsten]

My condolences...

Thank you. A person from Hull must truly understand my pain.

[Provost Harrison]

Mine is an altogether more intense circle of purgatory

[Darsnan]

Re: How disconnected from your food are you?

Originally posted by Sir Og
So the question is have you seen the actual plants and anymals that your food comes from. Have you seen a tomato plant or patato plant, etc. Have you seen a real pig, chicken, cow? Have you killed your own food e.g to slaughter a pig.

I've picked the veggies from my Mom's garden for years, and have caught and cleaned fish for about 30 years.
I also got up and close to the "Food Chain" today as I got to clean up the remains of a deer fawn that was (according to the local Animal Control people) killed and eaten by coyotes.


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[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by BeBro
OTOH I have never seen where they grow all that beer....it's quite a mystery ....

There is a sake factory a 10 minute bus ride from where I live, with tasting room and direct sales. Mmmmm....

[Jaguar]

I am a suburban person. I've never grown my own food of any sort. I have seen live cows and pigs and such, but never seen one slaughtered. I don't connect steak with actual cows.

Oh, I did catch a fish once and give it to someone else to eat.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I grew up in Hull, surrounded by a wealthy agricultural county where they grow all sorts of stuff. I've also been to a pig abattoir (when I was collecting tissue samples for my PhD). I've seen pigs. Then gutted and processed...the screams and the reek were terrible. Yet it still never put me off my pork

Funny, looking at you, I'd guess you weren't the sort to ever be disconnected from your food for long.

[Ben Kenobi]

Loin: How do they make head cheese?

[KrazyHorse]

Never seen a large animal (cow, pig etc) being slaughtered in person. Seen them on TV. Seen a turkey and a couple of chickens killed and dressed personally. Caught, fileted, cooked and ate a number of fish in my life. Grew tomatoes, carrots and some spices/herbs in my backyard as a kid. Often picked raspberries by the bushel and ate them. Went apple picking in the fall almost every year as a kid (that's a pretty big thing in Quebec).

I would have no problems butchering an animal. I would try to be as quick about the killing as possible, but I'm not squeamish about the fact that the stuff I eat used to be alive.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

My condolences...

Thank you. A person from Hull must truly understand my pain.

Actually, I didn't know if he was giving a jackass condolences to you, or me, or both of us.

[joncha]

lol I eat my own boogers LOL

[Starchild]

While I've never slaughtered an animal, I have dissected a few. I'm roughly familar with the anatomy of most domestic animals. The disembowling should not present too much difficulty.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Funny, looking at you, I'd guess you weren't the sort to ever be disconnected from your food for long.

Cheeky tw@t!

[BeBMan]

So when is your first day as mod here?

[Provost Harrison]

Whenever it is, Boris has just got his arse banned!

[Sir Og]

Originally posted by Pekka
have I seen plants, animals etc? Wtf.. what a weird question.

Well it also was very strange for me to discover that there are a lot of people who actualy pay for country tourism (might be farm tourism or something else, I'm not sure what it's called in English). This is when you go to a farm and pick fruits or milk cows or do some gardening and other simmilar stuff.

As a kid I spent every summer in the country with my grandparents and I know all farm anymals and plants that are grown around here. I would never pay to milk a cow for example but it seems that there are people for which these things are so exotic that they would pay to do them.

Another strange thing is when a frend of mine was refused a visa because at the interview they asked him what hobbies he has. He said that he likes fisshing and then they asked him if he eats the fish or just throws it back in the water. He ofcourse said that he eats the fish wich seems to have shocked the interviewer and he was denied a visa. I find this very strange.