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The Farmer's Curse...The Heartbreak of Butchering our own food #farming #butcher

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This video features a farmer discussing the emotional and psychological aspects of raising animals like chickens and cattle for meat. He addresses the common question of 'how can you eat your friends?' by explaining that these animals are primarily driven by instinct, survival, and fear, rather than human-like 'loving, cuddly' behaviors. The discussion aims to provide a rational perspective on developing emotional distance necessary for livestock farming.

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How can you eat your friends? Let's just start with chickens. Raising pastured poultry or chickens, meat bird chickens. These animals typically don't exhibit loving cuddly behavior. And the loving cuddly behavior is what we respond to as humans as humanlike from these animals. These animals are driven by food and driven by instinct and survival. That's what they're driven by. A chicken is chicken because it's scared. Because everything likes chicken. Chickens are fearful of everything, guys. The same goes with cattle. Cattle are fearful of everything. But as I expose myself to them and goats and sheep and and all that, every animal has a little bit different personality and a little more tolerance or a little less tolerance for Please.

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