No really. Literally.

http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/ ... -he-kills/

On the one hand this sounds kinda goofy, like just another weird-ass goal for a bored 27-year-old billionaire.

But on the other, people who eat meat really should be in touch with the killing and preparation part, at least a little. Ranch slaughtering is becoming almost a lost art, and it's one of those local, hands-on skills we need to preserve, with an eye toward a lower energy future.

The example described (besides boiling a lobster, which is bogus) is slitting a goat's throat. It also says he killed a pig, but it doesn't say how.

I'm not an expert, but I've been told pigs are relatively hard to slaughter. You can't slit their throats because their necks are so big and blubbery. In the old days, farmers would stab them in the heart with a lance ("pig sticker"). But nowadays most ranch slaughterers just shoot pigs in the heart with a high powered rifle, I believe.

larrymod wrote:No really. Literally.

http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/ ... -he-kills/

On the one hand this sounds kinda goofy, like just another weird-ass goal for a bored 27-year-old billionaire.

But on the other, people who eat meat really should be in touch with the killing and preparation part, at least a little. Ranch slaughtering is becoming almost a lost art, and it's one of those local, hands-on skills we need to preserve, with an eye toward a lower energy future.

The example described (besides boiling a lobster, which is bogus) is slitting a goat's throat. It also says he killed a pig, but it doesn't say how.

I'm not an expert, but I've been told pigs are relatively hard to slaughter. You can't slit their throats because their necks are so big and blubbery. In the old days, farmers would stab them in the heart with a lance ("pig sticker"). But nowadays most ranch slaughterers just shoot pigs in the heart with a high powered rifle, I believe.

+1 and I don't know where you are but around here the method of choice for pig slaughter is a .22lr. High powered rifles are expensive and can damage meat, No sorry WILL damage meat. .22lr to the brain case is quick easy and gets the job done cheap.

If he sticks to that I can maybe find a little respect for him.

I still hate FB though.

Anyone have photochop skills?

At least he's kind enough not to explain his personal challenges to those critters and bore them to death.