I’ve never hunted, nor fished, nor been apart of the killing/processing of any kind of meat.
My 6yo is asking me how animals end up on our plate. I tend to over-explain and I think that wouldn’t be healthy in this situation.
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*shrug* I was around that age the first time my dad showed me how to clean a fish and cook it. Honestly this is usually a much bigger problem for parents uncomfortable with the subject than it is for kids.
Be actually honest, let your kid make an informed decision, modern farming is brutal. If you lie to them and they find out later and the issue is close to their hearts, it’ll cause a distrust and damage your relationship. There are plenty of videos out there like earthlings and dominion.
Just go Lion King with it. Animals eat other animals, and that includes humans. People raise animals like cows and pigs and chickens on farms, and when it’s time, they kill them as quickly and painlessly as possible, prepare them as food, and sell the meat to the grocery store.
Sounds brutal, but that’s because it is. Tough conversation.
Edit: added the part about being as quick and painless as possible.
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Be actually honest, let your kid make an informed decision, modern farming is brutal. If you lie to them and they find out later and the issue is close to their hearts, it’ll cause a distrust and damage your relationship. There are plenty of videos out there like earthlings and dominion.
*shrug* I was around that age the first time my dad showed me how to clean a fish and cook it. Honestly this is usually a much bigger problem for parents uncomfortable with the subject than it is for kids.
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*shrug* I was around that age the first time my dad showed me how to clean a fish and cook it. Honestly this is usually a much bigger problem for parents uncomfortable with the subject than it is for kids.
I’ve worked at a slaughterhouse and there is no easy way to explain it to an actual child. It’s done as fast as possible so that animals don’t suffer too much, but it’s still, well, a slaughter. The english word is very on point.
The actual way may depend from country to country, so I’ll answer with how it is done here in France :
The animal is led to a trap, that is very tight. Someone put a gaz-pressured gun onto the animal’s forehead, and when pressing the trigger a metal bar pierces a hole right in the part of the brain responsible for pain (the metal bar is a part of the “gun”, nothing is left inside). Almost immediatly, the throat is sliced : the dying heart must pump all the blood out as fast as possible, because blood rottens meat (yeah, to many people’s surprise, meat “juice” is actually not blood). It’s beheaded, skined, cut in half by the length, and organs are removed. Then the long halves are colded with huge fans, put in fridges, and the next day when it’s cold enough we cut steaks and stuff.
TL;DR / less gore version : the animal is put to (definitive) sleep, cut open, and peeled and emptied so that only meat and bones remain. Kinda like an orange if oranges had a skeleton, if you put it that way.
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