ok. there seems to be a need for meat threads... my meat thread... by request...

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last night 50 head of cattle broke through a gate and descended onto my property. my neighbor was out of town, and one cannot reroute that many back through a gate on his lonesome, so i locked them into my land and watched my adventitious guests consume the large amounts of clover that grows all over my property. (plus they attacked his hay barn and totally gorged on whatever they wanted.) ha!

they were in cow/calf heaven. cows love clover. and i think they secretly loved fucking with the boss man's hay barn.

i was going to mow that land one last time before winter anyhow. now i don't have too. the cows took care of it. they are eating machines.

plus all of that free fertilizer. cows are the mice of large animals.


neighbor came home. we got all of the cattle through the gate. and in a month or two my freezer will be filled with one of these fine creatures.

here, cattle do not do the feed lot "awful" experience. they live great lives and they are amazing creatures. happy, fun and with unique personalities.

but in the end they are not pets. they are food. and in the end, their end is humane.


i understand that is not the same for some of you. but! your experience is not the same for the rest of us. not all beef is feed lot beef. not all lives of cattle are awful. you people that live in these awful worlds have to work that shit out for yourselves.


some of us are experiencing this whole "circle of life" thing just fine...

[cliffordu]

1. Yep. What you said.

[TlalocW]

2. Still, I think to make the whole experience more pure

You should pick out the cow you're getting and wrestle it to the death.

Okay, not really. It's late.

TlalocW

[Muttocracy]

4. yes, really :)

[Muttocracy]

3. there are a lot of dairy farms near me

and while none of them are as huge as the ones in the midwest and west, there are both pastured and CAFO'ed ones. I feel so bad for the CAFO cows, trapped in barns that reek of ammonia for miles, surrounded by corn field that fuel them. Almost every time I drive by dairy cows out in pasture, walking around, picking what they eat, who they hang out with, doing their own thing, I say "yay!"

I'm mostly a vegetarian and can't eat much dairy, but if I could afford and trust local pasture meat the way you do, I'd buy it for my dogs at least.