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Originally Posted by CFrance

My SIL wouldn't make her kids eat meat (they both hated it), and neither one of them eats meat to this day. Why you would force somebody to eat something they hate is beyond me.

I agree. There are other ways to get enough protein.

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Originally Posted by Mikeod

I still remember when I had that "Aha" moment. I was about 7 or 8 and we were invited to a friend's house for a cookout. I watched the husband grab a chicken from the pen and take it into the barn where he proceeded to take a hatchet and chop off the head. The headless bird raced around the yard for a bit, then fell to the ground. He did this to a second bird then hung them up. I couldn't eat any chicken that day. I've got over it since then, obviously.

But the memory always brings me back to a post I read when I lived in CA and was reading a thread about hunting. A poster made the comment that hunting was wrong and why don't those hunters just buy their meat at the supermarket where no animals are harmed. LOL!

mikeod: What you describe is exactly why my father would stick a chicken's head in a bucket of water and twist its neck. Then bleed it out and my duties then commenced dip into scalding hot water ,pull, water, pull water...

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I recently read an article where I believe it was Georgia, perhaps South Carolina...anyway a few southern states were they hunt sand crane. the article claimed meat was top of the line