First I read about hers and then I noticed she had one as well and because I didn't want to be left out, I joined the Marin Sun Farms Chicken get out your cleaver club too.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Undignified in Death?
First I read about hers and then I noticed she had one as well and because I didn't want to be left out, I joined the Marin Sun Farms Chicken get out your cleaver club too.
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Awesome. I'm pleased to see that living in the US hasn't given you that smarmy sentimentality over things that are going to end up in our stomachs anyway.
ReplyDeleteI found that once you've done it once, it ain't no big deal. Though I admit that the fingernails still creep me out.
ReplyDeleteAt least you didn't have to kill it
ReplyDelete;p
I knew how remove the feathers and prepare feasants and wild ducks...I'm glad I don't have to do it anymore, even if I regret the taste of my mom's venison pates.
Hilarious photo.
ReplyDeletePerfect picture. Indignity indeed.
ReplyDeleteNow. I was wondering what to do with the head, and Kudzu sent me this YouTube link.
Gawd, it looks like a crime scene. Where's the chalk line?
ReplyDeleteHeritage Farm chickens should be back at Prather this week. Yay!
What to do with a chicken head? I was hoping to make my poor cleaner jump out of her skin. She's funny - she'd only laugh. (I hope)
ReplyDeleteI made a nice stock. I probably faux pas-ed but i mixed the cooked carcuss bits and the non cooked bits all in one pot. Haven't tried it yet, its waiting to be souped, but it had a nice gel when I checked this morning.
Sean - I have to say I much preferred this one over the Heritage chicken, but it could have been the way I cooked it?
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It looks like a gnome singing.
ReplyDeleteI fear I may be a wee mollycoddled.
ReplyDeleteThis could be my 2007 Chicken Challenge!
That brings back memories, uncle david used to kill the chickens and we had to do the rest.
ReplyDeleteWow. That's, uh, yep. Very undignified. I suppose it's good when folks are reminded where their food comes from.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great photo. At first glance I thought it was stuffed face-down into the drain.
ReplyDeleteI am not even American, so I guess my "smarmy sentimentality" might come from other ethnicities... :-)
ReplyDeletebut in all honesty, I don't "get" the point of the photo. Yes, the chicken, as well as the cow, the pig, they will all end up in my belly anyway - but I like to picture them in a more respectful light. Cynic of me? well, maybe a little.
but I just cannot join the crowd laughing at the photo, and instead will be the single dissenting voice...
hey, I still love your blog, nothing personal. Just a slight difference of opinion, if you don t mind. :-)
Sally - I did photograph it more respectfully (see the next post). The point was to show the contrast - to illustrate where meat comes from - it will do us all good to remember.
ReplyDeleteI didn't pose it like this for a joke or redicule - I was cleaning the chicken in the sink and when I saw it looking that way I took a photograph. I think it is important for people to remember where chicken comes from - and that slabs of white breast meat sitting in a vaccum pack in the supermarket actually came from a real animal. This photo serves to remind us that. I have total respect for this chicken because of that. I used every little scrap of this chicken. I boiled the carcass to make stock. The leftovers went in my sandwiches.
I loved this whole chicken. I did not just take its breast and run.
Ok, I "get" it now
ReplyDeleteI think that having recently finished reading "THe Omnivore's Dilemma" made me overly concerned...
great book, by the way
thank you for your reply....
While I don't go out and find/kill my own game, I think its important to be connected to one's food chain.
ReplyDeleteI have caught and cleaned my own fish before - this certainly takes it one step further. You're a trooper.
Its no wonder people use butchers.
Sam, you know I luv u, but this is appalling.
ReplyDeleteCatherine - I welcome your opinion but some back up as to why exactly you find this appalling might help me address your particular issue with it. Did you read through the comments because i did explain my thinking further.
ReplyDeleteI am assuming you find any picture of meat appalling. Or would this post be more acceptable if this were simply a raw chicken breast? If the answer to the latter is yes, then I would probably have to have a (civilized) argument with you.
It is a fact of life that I choose to eat meat and I have no problem in exploring where my food comes from. In fact I think it is far more respectful of me to do so. I eat dead animals and so I have to deal with what that means. I refuse to sweep the facts under the carpet.
Hope that explains a little of my philosohy to you
Hi Sam,
ReplyDeleteI'm probably taking it in a way you didn't intend. The image seems mocking to me. No I didn't read thru all the comments before I commented and I see where you explained it.
Glad you're being mindful, a worthy goal.
Catherine
I do hope you saved the feet for stock....
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