Making home-made bacon?!
Four ladies from the Tahitian islander background have been my neighbours for a few years now. They are all in their 30's and are the most wonderful people and i treat them as my own sisters. They had been raising a young pig for a few months in their backyard.
A few times it found its way to my vege garden and ate my crops but the ladies apologized sincerely for the troubles and we got along.
Anyway, one morning i watched onto their backyard and they were chasing the pig to catch it (funny) but it was obvious not long after they caught it, the poor pig was forced to turn into the christmas ham by them. It was quite harsh to watch the whole ordeal which lasted over an hour but at the same time never expected women to do this because they are suppose to be feminine in my opinion.
My question being here is:
1. Aren't women suppose to be feminine people with a softer heart and why didn't they feel sorry for the pig?
2. Why couldn't they just go and buy pork from the shops and is it worth the effort they put in?
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I have never heard of anything like this, and it sounds so mean!! :( I would NOT be able to kill a pig to save my life!!
Stereotypically, women ARE supposed to have softer hearts, like maternal instincts an' all, but lots of women all over the world kill animals everyday for the food industry, so its not that unusual for a women not to feel sorry for an animals getting slaughtered etc. What I find strange is that even if they were intending to kill it, they must have kept the pig for a while, and I would have got emotionally attached to it for sure, after all that time!!!
And they could have bought pork from the shop, I certainly would, but I don't know, maybe it tastes better 'homegrown'? They might even be against the way that the meat farmers treat pigs that are sold for pork, and thought they would bring up their own pig, which they KNOW hasnt been treated cruelly in any way, and they know it had a good life. I can understand that, especially if the pig was going to eventually be sold for meat anyway.
Me :)
Before supermarkets who do you think did the cooking and killing of chickens, pigs, goats, sheep etc in villages around the world?
What's the difference if the pig is killed in a factory and packaged or killed in their back yard. It's still a dead pig.
You should ask them for a taste of that pig. That will answer your second question.
you aren't letting a pig get between you and those women
and maybe they are butchers they are just doing what a company would do except they aren't cruel to them you should see what they do to pigs in big companies its harsh
In a lot of cultures the man goes out and brings home the bacon (so to speak)
and the women prepare it and cook it.
