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In reply to the discussion: Hunting - horrifying to see 12 year old girls and grown men slaughtering animals and feeling [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)(hidden as usual) to the ecology. Most of livestock raising is subsidized, as well. The big feed lots and factory chickens is rather recent (we raised our own chickens and rabbits in the early 50s, but could not balance the books against 16¢/lb store-bought). But to this day, I know how to hot-dip a chicken, and to pluck then singe feathers off, before opening up the bird to extract everything, saving liver, heart, gizzard (and how to clean it), and oil sack for family meals. A few years ago, I resurrected those ancient arts when I unexpectedly killed a wild turkey. My hunting buddy was amazed when he saw that I had completed the plucking while he was getting prepared to help! All that was left was cleaning the gizzard and packing the Rio Grande Turkey into ice.
Animals taken in the wild are an efficient way to acquire and store high quality protein and minerals without either the chemistry or the harm to the ecology and public treasury, though admittedly if everyone returned to hunting, it would be unsustainable.
The big problem: How to feed everyone in the future without wrecking the ecology with Big Ag (both farming and animal ranching).
Thanks for the sources. Have you read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver?
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