tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post3712983424278473087..comments2023-05-18T22:48:39.363+10:00Comments on Provenance Growers: Pigs to porkPaulette Whitney, Provenance Growershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04611769384551068930noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-49145382352711937622014-07-04T11:43:09.389+10:002014-07-04T11:43:09.389+10:00Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings a...Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings along with the experience of turning your pigs into food.<br />Our just-picked home grown bitter leaves or sweet leaves as we thanked the plants for providing, our home grown meat that we created with honour to the birds and animals who provided it taste different because we are in real relationship with it.Satyahttp://www.healingwithin.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-70339834337557343952013-11-06T11:03:07.804+11:002013-11-06T11:03:07.804+11:00This is my first visit (from England) How refreshi...This is my first visit (from England) How refreshing to read this honest, sensitive, post.<br />Frugal in Derbyshire https://www.blogger.com/profile/10221169113482164565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-69865294148770590672013-10-21T09:02:23.059+11:002013-10-21T09:02:23.059+11:00I am glad your pigs lived well and didn't suff...I am glad your pigs lived well and didn't suffer the horrors of an abbatoir but I still don't understand the need to slaughter animals for food. I will stick with plant protein thank you. HelenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-35427383702523307722013-10-20T15:46:24.302+11:002013-10-20T15:46:24.302+11:00I am a vegetarian transitioning into veganism. I f...I am a vegetarian transitioning into veganism. I feel however that I am realistic concerning the death of animals for food. As much as I choose not to eat animals or consume their products, I understand that many do. I choose not to judge. What I do choose to do though is encourage people to show respect for animals they kill and to do it in a way that causes no stress, fear or trauma to the animal. And I feel that this is how you have done it and I thank you for that. To not put these two animals through the horrors of an abattoir deserves a pat on the back for you. Raenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-67790602169905055782013-10-18T22:52:36.555+11:002013-10-18T22:52:36.555+11:00Beautiful words would love to read more on how you...Beautiful words would love to read more on how you pastured them etc. This is my first visit I'll look around to see if you have written out it. I would like to use pigs in the same fashion in our gardens.<br /><br />ErikaErikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14497787330868965888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-27021290007694081012013-10-16T10:55:13.845+11:002013-10-16T10:55:13.845+11:00I'm pleased you're on this interesting phi...I'm pleased you're on this interesting philosophical journey and you have the time and talent to write about it honestly and passionately. I hope you enjoy those first tastes. And thank you for the interesting facts about pigs.<br /><br />This is my first visit to your blog. I'll be back. :- )rhonda jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08962112306968959985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-3907476364477631302013-09-09T13:05:12.654+10:002013-09-09T13:05:12.654+10:00Wonderful article, so well expressed, I really app...Wonderful article, so well expressed, I really appreciate your effort to display what happens, so often this side of animal husbandry is glossed over, homogenised meat consumption with cling wrap and black polystyrene. <br />It is no small choice to grow and dispatch your own animals. Mobile butchers rank pretty high in my admiration list these days.Killiecrankie Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11306254588211569227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-79528819972202830572013-07-20T09:25:13.552+10:002013-07-20T09:25:13.552+10:00Thank you Paulette for a most eloquent account of ...Thank you Paulette for a most eloquent account of your emotions and the actual event of shooting the pigs and the subsequent processes for your home-grown food.<br /><br />I echo your concerns about the disconnect between people and their food and have had to clip my own ear every now and then as I tend to (possibly) romanticise the relationships between humans, animals and Nature, in general.<br /><br />Does a tree mourn the loss of a limb blown off in a huge wind? I don't know however, according to Peter Tompkins (The Secret Life of Plants) plants have a sophisticated nervous system too.<br /><br />Death is essential for life, as KirstenMilkwood ponts out. I suspect the means of dying is the issue for many people.....perhaps we have the utopian belief that going to sleep and not waking is the ideal way to take our last breath.<br /><br />A gunshot to the brain is so quick......one minute the animal is breathing and the next minute, she's not. No pain. No squealing. No last-minute-thoughts or regrets. Just. Gone.<br /><br />We have bought a 160 acre property with many micro-climates south east of Wagga in the Riverina and our first pigs arrive in a fortnight. We want pigs for every reason you described - tractors, muses, fertilisers, companions and ...... food.<br />This is the same for the cattle, chooks, turkeys and guinea fowl.<br /><br />We have deer on the place, many 'roos and rabbits, too. We will selectively shoot and eat them according to our needs.<br /><br />My thanks for a wonderful post and bon appetit with Rillete and Lardo.<br /><br /><br /><br />bush goddesshttp://www.bushgoddess.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-82393414700855299462013-07-20T08:56:39.863+10:002013-07-20T08:56:39.863+10:00Thank you for your story, Paulette. I have grown a...Thank you for your story, Paulette. I have grown and eaten my own chickens, and am now approaching killing and butchering one of our cows. I love my animals and give them the best life I can, and the quickest death I can. They are all named- as are my chickens. My cows treat me as one of the herd and we engage in mutual grooming. I am astounded how close the social grouping is in a herd, and how affectionate cows and bulls can be to their herd. I take responsibility for the food I grow and eat. I am a vehement opponent to factory farming and its cruelty. I would be proud to stand with any vegetarian against the cruelty of factory farming and unmonitored abattoirs, and I find no contradiction in combatting factory farming while eating my own free-range livestock. My livestock manage my forests and protect me against bushfires. <br />It is time we got our priorities straight. We can love and care for animals ethically and still eat them. It is the unethical and cruel treatment of animals we need to unite against, rather than just a general ban on meat.<br />Elena Garcia, QldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-19773017731990406652013-07-17T07:22:17.148+10:002013-07-17T07:22:17.148+10:00Thanks for your beautiful article. We're just...Thanks for your beautiful article. We're just about to get pigs and I've been wondering how attached we're going to get and how it's going to be to say good bye.<br />Robyn@ Pip Magazine.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18428121269484986677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-19731003283257290022013-07-16T23:21:57.582+10:002013-07-16T23:21:57.582+10:00What an amazing post, and something that I struggl...What an amazing post, and something that I struggle with daily. I'm both a happier, more whole person since raising my own food...and on a few days, a sadder, more conflicted person. We have pigs as well that we're using to clear land, along with geese, chickens, bunnies and sheep. <br /><br />All will be food in some way or another, but for now, they are living happy, healthy, safe lives and I am sweating, worrying, and providing for them until their last bad day.<br /><br />Happy curing! erin @ blue yurt farmshttps://www.facebook.com/blueyurtfarmsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-44462397553216693752013-07-16T23:17:57.650+10:002013-07-16T23:17:57.650+10:00Beautifully written and thought provoking. A lesso...Beautifully written and thought provoking. A lesson that ought be taught to all children....thanks for sharing. Missing you and the girls x BarbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-39858111146099521342013-07-16T22:54:47.298+10:002013-07-16T22:54:47.298+10:00Wonderfully shared. I particularly liked the parag...Wonderfully shared. I particularly liked the paragraph beginning "Our worlds are becoming so monotone...." very well said. (I continually encourage people to buy and eat bitter greens amongst their salad leaves) For me I cannot bear to name those we intend to kill and though I tend them with care and love, I refer to them as "the girls" and "the boys". I guess I fear that I would pet them and yes that makes it harder. Your children are fortunate to have these life experiences too.Tanya Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04867118885094628168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-82575325260070103652013-07-16T22:46:34.249+10:002013-07-16T22:46:34.249+10:00Beautiful. A happy life, a quick death. Totally di...Beautiful. A happy life, a quick death. Totally different from the life and death on "factory" farms!Cynthianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-15883279115193767032013-07-16T21:31:11.113+10:002013-07-16T21:31:11.113+10:00Nicely expressed. The same butcher came to kill a ...Nicely expressed. The same butcher came to kill a cow and two goats last week, I'm so impressed at their services. The feelings such activities inspire in me are varied; I felt grounded, sad, proud and astonished at the beauty of the inside of a cow. <br />This time we kept many of the organs for the first time - stayed up until midnight sorting and cleaning for freezing. I was surprised at our somewhat adrenaline like energy, and how deeply we slept and how tired and spent we were when we woke, late. Our french wwoofer commented 'Blood - it causes an excitement in humans'. "Excited" doesn't really name the emotion but my mind has been busy, working out how I feel. I know I'm appreciating meat in a different way at the moment in light of that experience. JillyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-76816652221330943662013-07-16T21:14:05.510+10:002013-07-16T21:14:05.510+10:00beautiful. xbeautiful. xGourmetGirlfriendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14540195749908936684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-27260269675606803212013-07-16T20:44:46.717+10:002013-07-16T20:44:46.717+10:00Well done. Without death there can be no life. How...Well done. Without death there can be no life. How lucky you are as a family to be able to participate in these cycles, without having to outsource such important moments...Kirstenhttp://www.milkwood.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-35535372734650175452013-07-16T20:39:47.286+10:002013-07-16T20:39:47.286+10:00A beautiful read Paulette....i am enjoying getting...A beautiful read Paulette....i am enjoying getting to know you!! Will miss our hugs for the next 2 months. Much love.XXAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02994499929511271923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-27293116683252720492013-07-16T18:18:09.753+10:002013-07-16T18:18:09.753+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17670163857850131546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-58249458117816900922013-07-16T16:43:50.428+10:002013-07-16T16:43:50.428+10:00Ditto - beautiful words. Ditto - beautiful words. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4915475888623640248.post-24778354692088962052013-07-16T16:30:05.411+10:002013-07-16T16:30:05.411+10:00Beautiful Paulette. Just beautiful.
xxBeautiful Paulette. Just beautiful.<br /><br />xxMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16616733902804562775noreply@blogger.com