Food School: a 31 day course (day 29 Bacon)
I LOVED BACON!
When I was growing up my step-father had 2 eggs, bacon (cooked on a microwave plate–the slanted kind to catch all the grease) with homemade bread. The smell of toast and bacon are strangely comforting smells for me.
But, as comforting as they might be–I just can’t eat bacon. I can’t eat bacon knowing that animals are tortured. I just can’t. I’m ok with my choice. I’ve eaten more than my share of bacon in this lifetime . . . before I knew how pigs are treated on most farms.
Will I ever eat bacon again? I might. If I talk to the farmer of the pig–if the pig was given a nice name, a nice place to lay down and the best mud in the county. I might. But until then. I’m good. (and for those of you who know me well–you know I’ll be calling up the farmer and might even load the kids up and take a field trip to the farm! that is just part of my Renee-ness.)
I am sharing a video that is really disturbing. You need to click here to see it. Do not click if you like bacon and want to eat it again. Do not click it if you have trouble with foul language–I have no idea why these farmers swear at pigs. The abuse is bad enough–but to yell and swear at a pig? I’m thinking Karma friends. What goes around comes around.
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Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing this, though I say thanks with a heavy heart
Chris–I know, I’m sorry. I love bacon–but I love animals more! The thing is that animals do need to be killed to be on our plate but . . . can’t they be killed in a gentle, loving kind way?
That’s the kicker!
Our minds are pulled in two different directions: Compassion vs. Culture. I grew up on a farm–the killing was small scale and just what we needed to eat. The Mass killings for so much EXCESS in the U.S. is what breaks my heart!
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