So I just wanted to share with you all a very traumatic experience of my life. So traumatic in fact that I am surely convinced that I will need serious therapy and plenty of coca cola! ( c : Well, if that previous sentence wasn't dramatic enough... I'll show you the pictures and let them speak for themselves. If you are into animal protection/rights... then this might be a post to avoid. Here goes....
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Doing my hair in preparation for the killing. |
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In order to kill a chicken... you have to have a chicken |
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And you have to have a knife. |
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And you have to position the animal just right... was worried about hurting his feet and wings. |
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Trying to balance myself and ensuring that the chicken wasn't in pain. (Talk about denial!!) |
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trying to psych myself up to kill the little chicken. Was so hoping there was an alternative. |
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But there wasn't. Dinner was calling! |
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And so back to business..... |
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And up from business... BREATHE... and prepare... What am I about to do? The poor chicken.... |
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And back to business.... And at just about this moment... the chicken made a desperate plea for life... and well, the rest is history..... absolute history..... |
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I surrendered..... Handed off the knife and |
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ran around...... |
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and while I was running around... Sam took over. I mean, there was chicken to eat. |
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I gave the chicken an empathetic throat grab.... |
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while the chicken died. |
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And then I rejoined just in time to.... |
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pluck off the feathers.... |
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I promise I was careful as I removed all those feathers.... |
And well.... after all this drama... it was time for a coca cola.
and not just ONE coca cola.... but a whole bunch!
And that is the story of one little chicken. I can tell you right now that that chicken didn't taste so good that night. I mean... as I chewed, I kept thinking of the chicken that had been VERY much alive hours earlier. And well, maybe next time.... I will be intentional about NOT being present at all during the slaughter of the chicken.
And that is a day in my life.....
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