This is as real as it gets to being a farmer. Raising livestock doesn’t always have to be heartbreaking. Yes, it is difficult to not get emotionally attached and then let them go once they’re ready to be processed, but if you’re like Hachiken who respected them to their final days then created delicious food with the meat and then share it with good people, then it isn’t a waste or disrespect to that animal’s life. Also, I like how the third years traded goods they grew or made in exchange for the bacon. Reminds me of when my family used to have a small garden where we grew herbs, roses, and some vegetables. My mom used to work for a hotel in their accounting department, but she would always give the kitchen staff fresh cut herbs from our garden, and the chef would give her (and sometimes my sister and I) a free lunch as thanks.
My dad is from a farm family and whenever I visited my aunts and uncles they would tell me that they never name their livestock out of fear of being emotionally attached and in high school I took agriculture class where we had to do an agriculture project and I initially wanted to take care of a pig cause I thought they were cute but my parents encouraged me to take care of chickens instead
same with me but sheep’s. i’m native and we herd sheep’s and eventually eat them so we never name them cuz one time my little sister did and we ended up butchering her fav sheep and when she saw he wasn’t there she bawled all day 😢
Loving how the third years traded lol. I live way down south, and have for about a year now, and we live to trade and barter for goods. Im a notorious baker of breads, so ill bring them to the neighbors- and here its bad manners to return a dish empty. On our street we have a yearly barbecue, where everyone brings a little bit of something, amd we all have fun eating it. I watched this show as a kid- i was maybe 16, and i wasnt living where i am now. And i remember it so vividly. I remember them describing the smell of the pizza so well that i could smell it. For a long time, i didnt know what i wanted to do or who i wanted to be. But i like plants and animals (this includes bugs!). And when i consulted with the local college, they suggested and Agricultural sciences major. Im looking into starting that, and im so excited for it. It reminded me a little of this.
there's the lab meat which is basically meat but growing on a lab instead of on an animal that has to be kill... it is still very new and too expensive to sell it out but it might be an option in the future...
@@tursiopss it's not a completed technology yet though hopefully one day we'll get there. The issue though then becomes what happens to cows as a species that's pretty much fully domesticated
Probably more an environmental factor where if you raise the animal well and healthily, the meat’ll turn out higher quality. As for love and affection, it probably won’t affect the flavor too much but I’d say it’s fucked up to love an animal to make it tastier.
Stress affects the body in more ways than one. My grandma lived on a farm with chickens and used to butcher cows back in her home country. The chickens were free range, they get to go wherever they want. And she told me the cows lived in the same type of environment. They were well taken care of. The first time I ever got to visit I got to eat chicken and rice and my grandma's own marinated skewers recipes from the animals from the farm........ The texture of the chicken alone can't be compared to store bought chicken. And the beef. Beyond what I ever had in my life.
Late to the party.... I believe that is the real meaning to "you are what you eat", thinking about what goes into raising an animal for food, what you expose it to, what environment it's raised in, for instance you wouldn't eat a pigeon from the city because you probably have a good idea of what kind of life it's had, eating trash, most likely drinking dirty water, and being in a polluted environment, even if you were starving you wouldn't want to eat something like that and when I've had the chance to eat food that is more naturally grown/processed there is almost always an instant noticeable difference in taste compared to what you get from any regular grocery store the only problem is that because of the time necessary for such quality there wouldn't be as much in supply as that in stores and the cost is usually higher.
Iirc arakawa sensei got pregnant during the writing so she took pretty long hiatus, and when she was able to write/draw again, the popularity of it went down. So they decided that they should just end it with conclusive ending without writing all that was planned out
I believe this is the true meaning of "you are what you eat", it's not literal, but if think about it what you put in your body is important and so when it comes to the animals we eat it's just as important what goes into their body, if you were in the forest you might eat birds or even rodents to survive, but if you were homeless on the streets you'd never eat a pigeon or rat because most likely all it's life they've been eating trash and drinking dirty water and you wouldn't want that in your body so with regards to the livestock we consume we shouldn't stop eating them, but we should be treating them a whole lot better than we are now.
