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Friday, November 21, 2008

Turkey Reprieve

Kieth Olberman has a video of Sara Palin reprieving a turkey from being used during Thanksgiving. In it she reads a proclamation that is corny and silly, saying this turkey is exempt. Later, as she is being interviewed, there is a farm worker in the background killing a few birds. This farm uses a rudimentary form of killing the birds. Even more rudimentary, than what is shown, is to just put the birds head on a block and cut the head off with one strike of an axe. This farm stuffs the bird into a round funnel made of tin and then the head is cut off. As I have said before, this generation has no understanding of how food is processed to get to ones table fully prepared and cooked. Most have never seen an animal die, or butchered. The present attitude is that it is too horrible to be witnessed. Olberman falls into this category as he effusively gushes that the children should be removed from seeing this. Only when he is assured that children are not present is the interview shown. The reason Olberman presents this is his belief that it somehow diminishes Sara Palin. It is my belief that all children should witness how a bird is killed with an axe. The updated technology for killing a fowl is to grasp it by the neck, put the head between two electrodes, and the bird is electrocuted very fast. The bird is then put on a hook and sent down the line for processing. One person can kill thirty birds in five minutes. Speed is important to keep costs down thus enabling our low cost chicken strips.

3 Comments:

  • I think there is now a chidren's program (on PBS if I'm not mistaken) that shows the process of getting foods from the farm to the table. I would assume they only show the fruits, veggies, and grains, though. I know there is a Cubs baseball player's wife who also has some sort of community project based on this subject as well.

    By Blogger Tarren Prange, at 1:59 PM  

  • Hasn’t Kieth been on vacation all week?

    marty

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