I recently came across an article in Overflow (a free Brooklyn based magazine) titled “Fresh Meat: How to Butcher a Chicken” by Hannah Rappleye. Hannah goes through the process unbiasedly from the very beginning starting at going to a live poultry market that are located all over the city (I have been in one in Harlem).
After reading this article as well as other material I have decided not to eat chicken until I can kill one myself. It will be probably be a few months, I am in NO hurry! Through this I hope to gain an appreciation of where meat comes from, all of the hard work and suffering that goes into producing it. I believe if I cannot take the life of an animal I consume then I probably shouldn’t be eating it.
So people have been asking: Why chickens and not beef, or another meat? Because I can actually do it! It is the only animal I eat that I have access to, and can kill (eek!) in my own home.
Anyone want to give me an extra set of hands?
Read full article by Hannah Rappleye here:
Photographs by Marlene Rounds.
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