What significant things have I done today?

[Darlica]

Aggi! Next time your buddy goes to Sweden, go with him!
We have pigs here too, plenty of them as a matter of fact...

When I was a child our family bought half a pig in the late autumn and half a ox in the spring for many years.
I was in the kitchen with the rest of the family, trimming, grinding and packing meat. 

I doubt I could pull the trigger my self (not allowed here any way one has to be either a veterinarian or a butcher and hunters are only allowed to kill game) but the cutting up, sure, give me some sharpened knifes and bring it on!


I went to work despite having no desire what so ever to do so... I'd much rather stayed in bed with the duvet up to my ears.

[Swatopluk]

Just this minute I finished the Medea song (64 stanzas).
Unfortunately, I wrote it in German and I doubt that an English translation would carry even half the jokes, allusions etc.

[Griffin NoName]

Will take your word that it's brilliant Swato.

Well done Darlica. Sounds like me getting up with the alarm today and hustling myself to the shops. Good days are when I can sleep til I wake naturally.

[Swatopluk]

Just in case anyone wants to check. Here's the Medea.
It's only 62 stanzas though.
Would be easy to add some more but (for a song) it's already quite long (and thus quite prone to bore)

[Aggie]

@ Zono:  Killing bothers me, too. I think it always should. The farmer who did the kill on Wednesday was pretty shook up by it; those who care, don't want to kill but will make that trade-off to see that the animals are taken care of properly.  I admire that you're sticking by your beliefs by moving to a vegetarian lifestyle.

Aggi! Next time your buddy goes to Sweden, go with him!
We have pigs here too, plenty of them as a matter of fact...

Heh, he's there with his (Swedish) wife and new baby; I'm not sure where, but it's a small village.  If you meet any shaggy farmers from Canada, say hi for me.

Rendering leaf lard and grinding the leftover bits of pig at the moment...  well tired of processing pork!

[Darlica]

Heh, he's there with his (Swedish) wife and new baby; I'm not sure where, but it's a small village.  If you meet any shaggy farmers from Canada, say hi for me.

I'll be on the look out for a family of Canadian farmers! 
Seriously you should come here some time.

[Aggie]

It's somewhere I'd definitely like to go, and I have some amazing Swedish-born friends.  Actually, my parents have been to Sweden; they were over there in April of 1986.

Too much world, not enough time!

[Aggie]

Eating venison burritos with local jalapeno gouda. A buddy got the deer with a crossbow. I signed up for a mandatory gun safety program today to get my non-restricted (i.e. hunting weapons only) possession and acquisition licence. I'll probably hunt again this fall, after a ~14 year hiatus. Going to be a legally-registered gun nut.

[anthrobabe]

I was vegetarian for years-- fell off the wagon with a ham. I still do not have meat every meal or day. I like the idea of being involved with our food-- no I could not kill the animal and am not a hunter-- but the butchering and processing of that meat would be good, if intense, way to be a more aware consumer.

[Aggie]

I hate the kill... it shouldn't be fun to kill.  The rest of the hoof-to-table process has a certain satisfaction to it (see previous page of this thread for Aggie Butchers a Pig). I guess I look at all of this (gardening included) as the cooking process taken to its full extent. I'll go through it in order to put a good, fresh meal that feels ethically permissible on the table, as it's expensive/hard to do so otherwise.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I purchase meat for my wife (who tends to have anaemia) but as I'm sure that the animals served in the local supermarkets have been mistreated I avoid meats as much as possible. I still buy cheese and eggs (those are cage free, organic in the hopes the hens aren't treated as bad).
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Harmonizing church hymns now that my only job is singing at a catholic church on Sundays. I don't remember if mentioned this before but the more masses I hear (four each Sunday >_<) the more BSy the stuff sounds. Fortunately these guys haven't been too ideological so far (let's hope when the presidential elections come that doesn't change).

[Griffin NoName]

Spent ages fiddling with a picture of my new MSc certificate in order to put it on Facebook.

[goat starer]

Burping, feeding, playing, basking in the glow of a smile...

[Griffin NoName]

What a great pic. And of course the baby.

[Aggie]

That's a 100,000 watt smile, that one.