It's nothing like buying meat from a grocery store. . .

[stoloniferous]

For years now, Chris and I have been of the opinion that if we are going to be carnivores, that we ought to participate at some point in our lives in killing and cleaning what we eat.  Well. . . he finally succeeded in catching Houdini the bunny, the great garden ravager.  Tonight we will be cooking bunny stew.

Chris has been doing everything

Comments

[mcsassypants]

Please? LJ-Cut for those of us who are soft hearted vegetarians?

[stoloniferous]

Sorry! Can you tell me how?

[rebeccafrog]

*lj-cut text="Cut to spare the delicate sensibilities of tender-hearted vegetarians."* Text you want cut. */lj-cut*

With < and > replacing the asterisks.

[stoloniferous]

I'm sorry, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[rebeccafrog]

I think it's very good for meat-eaters to occasionally start with an animal and end with food. I'm surprised you managed to be ok with killing and eating a creature you had named, though. That tends to make most people squeamish.

[stoloniferous]

I didn't plan on naming it first, but in retrospect, sometimes I feel the need to demonstrate that I do understand myself better than other people know, specifically when it comes to physically or emotionally tough situations. Bunny aside, it's something that has been nagging me about childbirth. I've had well-meaning people fail to believe me when I tell them I am prepared to attempt childbirth without drugs. And there are other things in my life that I can't very well demonstrate but which I think I would be able to handle should the opportunity arise. It annoys me when people assume that I am fragile.

Sorry. . .

[stoloniferous]

LJ ate my */rant* tag at the end of that post. . . :P

[rebeccafrog]

Most Americans are pretty wussy when it comes to discomfort. We're a very comfortable people. We have pills for everything. People have a hard time imagining voluntarily forgoing anything that would diminish pain and discomfort. They also know their own tolerance for pain and discomfort, and it's hard to believe that other people have significantly different thresholds. It's a pretty standard form of egocentrism. It's not so much that they assume that you, personally, are fragile; it's that they believe they are fragile, and thus everyone else must be, too. And clearly, anyone who's never been through it, doesn't know what she's talking about. There's really nothing to be done about those people but to tell them to shut up when they persist in not believing you. As I've said before, it seems a little weird to me to go into an unknown situation assuming that drugs will be necessary. When my time comes, I fully intend to have an anaesthesiologist on hand, just in case, but I'm not going to let anyone drug me unless I decide I really can

[baliset]

Oh God, I think this is only something I could do out of desperation. I can barely deal with roast chicken because it's too identifiable.

[stoloniferous]

The bunny *was* killed out of desperation. Those plants represent almost every weekend and many mornings and evenings since, in some cases, February. And hundreds of dollars of plants, seeds, fencing, and other equipment.

[baliset]

I understand, I was talking about the skinning and preparing it for a meal. My in laws have the same problem, but with deer who love eating their nice landscaping and my MIL's garden.

[stoloniferous]

Yeah, I know what you mean. We didn't do this because we were starving, but because the bunny was a serious pest, and we didn't want to be wasteful.