did anybody watch this week's trading spouses??

[Flatcoatluver]

omg it was so sick they had this family and there kids where like 17 and 14. (a girl and a guy) they were talking about how the kids raise 100 and spent it on a baby calf and then butcher and sale the meat. I just really can't understand how a girl would actually save money and raise a calf and then butcher it. maybe it just me. But wouldn;t you think of it as a pet. then the mother said i don't know but it just taste good having home made butcherd meat that you raised from babies. or something like that.

[CathyBogart]

I raised a lamb to be slaughtered....I dunno, I was happy because he would have been slaughtered around the time he was pretty much no matter what, but I gave him a wonderful life while I had him.

I would much rather eat meat from an animal I knew had a great life than one where I had no idea what its life had been like.

[Corinna]

It's called farming. I raised cattle for my 4-H project it was also my school clothes money . No sale no new clothes fact of life.

[Allecto]

Why should it bother the girl any more or less than the boy?
I have also raised livestock that ended up on my family's dinner table, or was given away to needy families. Pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, etc...
Maybe there was some level of sadness the first time or two, but like they've said, I felt better about eating that meat than I did anything that was run through a slaughterhouse.

[Flatcoatluver]

I can't really put it into words what i mean. Maybe because I am a vegetarion and I have had cows before that got butcherd when I was a little girl, so yeah I guess we have all had differnt opinoins. I get what your saying about atleast there in a good place. nvm just never mind this thread

[Suki Wingy]

I'm getting a 4H calf this summer... I raised $700 for lease of it. She's a holstien though so she'll be a dairy cow.