Comments on It's All About We!: shock. (pig kill, part 1.)

This is Deb... for some reason, your blog wouldn&#...

2012-01-28T23:02:59.635-05:00

This is Deb... for some reason, your blog wouldn't accept my livejournal credentials!

I was an animal science major for my first year of college. As I was UC Davis, the ag school in CA and at the time the premiere vet school in the country. Most of the prevets majored in animal science, and a required course for the major was the freshman class, Animal Science 1.

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Thanks, Paula. These questions started getting big...

2012-01-19T22:11:39.542-05:00

Thanks, Paula. These questions started getting bigger for me when Maya was about 2 or 3 and I'd already started referring to our meat as "cow" (sometimes "cow meat") or "pig" but when she asked me about the lamb chops we were eating I had a heck of a time saying it was lamb. I did. We did keep eating, but, there was a definite disturbance in our whole pattern...

"So many people need for things to be right o...

2012-01-19T17:24:45.522-05:00

"So many people need for things to be right or wrong. Simple is preferred, even if it's not honest."

Yes, this definitely. I don't know how I feel about eating meat. Pigs seem wrong ... I hardly eat anything pigly, except (except!) for the very occasional strip of two of bacon. I don't eat much beef either, even though cows seem too dumb to care about ... pigs