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food discussion (meat)

This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving, so yesterday was turkey slaughter day on my farm.

[Side note: I can talk for a *long* time about meat and farming and I realize food choices are *very* personal. The diet I have converged on that works for me and my living situation is to only occasionally eat meat, and only from animals that I know had very good lives and quick deaths, which usually means animals I raise and kill myself]

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Prof. Sam Lawler
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[Side note cont'd: this extends to eggs and dairy, which I really enjoy eating. So I hatch lots of eggs to have loads of egg-laying chickens, ducks, and turkeys, and about half of them are male, which would cause fights and damage if I kept all of them. It makes sense to eat the males. In order to get goat milk, my goats have to have babies, and I can't keep all the boys (same reasons). I usually sell them to locals who butcher on-farm, so no stressful transport]
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Prof. Sam Lawler
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Anyway, I spent all day yesterday killing and butchering turkeys. I really enjoy raising turkeys, but after this flock escaped and wandered over to my neighbour's house (1/2 km away!!) and pooped all over their porch multiple times, I was pretty ok with using them for meat (and giving my neighbours a turkey as an apology for all the poop).
A flock of turkeys walking across a field toward 4 mystified-looking cows as I herd them back to my farm from my neighbour's farm
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Prof. Sam Lawler
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We butchered 23 turkeys, and I only managed to sell 4 of them for too cheap to even really cover my costs (and gave away 3 to friends who helped with butchering). So, lots of turkey for me, and maybe I can make sausage or something later in the year and sell that (*IF* I can fit all the extras in my freezer!)

Farming is frustrating: grocery stores sell for so cheap that nobody wants to pay what food actually costs to grow, and farmers make no money.

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Prof. Sam Lawler
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We are mostly farming to have high-quality food for ourselves, and selling a bit of the extra. My partner and I both have full-time off-farm jobs, we found out long ago that farming doesn't pay enough to be viable. Which is CRAZY because everyone needs to eat!! We're TOTALLY reliant on farms that are not financially viable!

Anyway, if you enjoyed this discussion/rant, I highly HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan.

Back to astronomy!

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Stacey Campbell
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I'm not a fan of turkey meat. My theory is that their belligerent personalities are reflected in the taste.
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Prof. Sam Lawler
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I think mostly because of factory farming, also because they buy from large producers who can have teeny tiny profit margins? I am not an expert on economics/marketing, just this is what I've observed.
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Prof. Sam Lawler
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Ha! Except that I don't think the prisoner's motivation in the movie was to go poop on the neighbour's porch, which was apparently my turkeys' goal...
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Prof. Sam Lawler
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Huh, I haven't ever seen the nationalist-locavore connection (but all the locavore advocates I know are gigantic hippies). I think it's generally a pretty good idea for many reasons besides carbon footprint.

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