To Kill a Pig

[oneighty]

Long ago on a bright early morning. I am sitting at the table by the kitchen window. My wife Tricia has loaded my plate with crispy fried bacon, several sunny side eggs and grits covered with real butter.

Out side in the pig lot maintained by my wife's Uncle he approaches a solitary pig. With the twenty two gage rifle he is carrying he fires a round close up and directly into the pig's head. I watch; astonished and my bacon is losing its attraction.

The pig squeals shakes his head and continues to do pig things. Uncle seems perplexed so he fires a second round with the same results. He leaves, enters his shed and returns with a hatchet. He straddles the pig as if to ride it. He raises the hatchet high over his head and brings it down hard burying it into the pig's head. The blow is so violent Uncle cannot remove it from the pig's head.

The pig squeals blood is flying and I lose my desire for food that long ago morning.

180

The way it was

[Squatch]

1. But bacon tastes goood...pork chops taste good....

[Neoma]

2. ....yuck

sorry, but i'll still eat pig.
better then cow any day.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. I am carnivore too

but I believe that animals slaughtered for food should be given our respect, and consumed with a grateful attitude


if we had to kill our own meat --see the blood and witness the terror in the animals eyes and hear their cries of pain , I wonder how many would become vegetarians on the spot?

meat comes pre packaged from the super market


sure it does

[trof]

3. Well, speak of the devil.

Somebody recently asked about folks we hadn't seen around in a while and I thought about 180.
Glad you're still kicking.
:hi:
p.s. I STILL like bacon.
;-)

[oneighty]

6. Hey Trof

Uncle was always a mystery to me. He died a millionaire. It was that one incident which just baffled me. He could afford the best of everything, even a professional butcher.

How are you doing old man? Hee hee hee

[trof]

7. Jes' keepin' on keepin' on.

You know.
;-)

[oneighty]

9. Keepin on is good!

180

[rawtribe]

4. Mmmm

Bacon

[fishnfla]

8. Your uncle

sounds like a very determined man. maybe you should have just given him your breakfast

[oneighty]

11. Yes!

Steaming hot on a platter all chewed up. Barf. That was in 1958 we had just gotten married. Like oh wow! What did I get into here. Perhaps Uncle was sending me a message?

Hey you been missing from action too?

No fishing?

180

[MidwestMomma]

10. A story about my Grandpa and pigs

When my mom was growing up on their farm, they always bought a pig in the spring and then butchered it in the fall. My mom had 5 brothers. So every year they would file down to the pig pen...my Grandpa, the brothers and a large bucket of water.

You see, my Grandpa could butcher the pig, no problem. But when it came time to slit the throat to drain the blood, my Grandpa would faint...every single time. So Grandpa would slit the throat, fall into a dead faint, the brothers would dash him with the bucket of water and then Grandpa would get up and butcher the pig.

My Grandpa, doing what he had to do to put food on the table. :)