where does your meat come from?

[elkoholic]

I spoke with my sons kindy-teacher the other day and she said we needed to be careful what we say around him, apparently he told one of the other kids that we now have 3 pigs and we are going to kill them and eat them.. the teacher said we shouldn't tell him things like that!!! what a bunch of BS.. I asked her where her bacon came from ? he also talks about me hunting and killing deer. he has been around this kind of stuff his whole life so he knows how things work. the last few years he has been in charge of grinding every animal my family has harvested, he's pretty good at it too if we miss some fat or something he will throw it out and make us trim it up so it looks good.. he is 5 years old..

[DeKuma]

I get it all the time too, but my kids understnad the circle of life and how it works.  My 15 year old daughter really defends the right to hunt, my 7 year old step-son is getting better about it.

Congratulations for teaching them the way of life and to not be ashamed of it.  The grinding cracked me up, I be he really gets after you if you make a mistake and do not trim enough huh?

[elkoholic]

my daughter is going to be the same way .. we were cuuting up a deer the other day and she was so mad that she couldnt have a knife to help.. I treid to give  her the sharpening rod but that only ticked her off more because it wouldnt cut the meat.. She is 1 1/2 .If only mom was that eager to get involved.....

[BC CHASER]

I have twin nephews that are 6 now and when they graduated from Preschool they had to say what they wanted to be when they grew up.  One said a police officer like his grandpa and the other said a hunter like my uncle BC CHASER.  I guess the crowd had mixed reactions but who cares. When *censored* his the fan and you cannot buy food from a grocery store they will be the first to vanish!

[wastickslinger]

I will never back down. And any teacher or anyone else who doesnt like what what my kids knows about hunting and butchering can kiss it where the sun dont shine. If those kind of peple could only see the happines the outdoors and hunting brings to all of our families they would think twice about their comments about not wanting to hear it. My 3 year old daughter practically does back flips when I bring something home (deer, shed, fish, whatever). I think its Great.

[NRA4LIFE]

Wait, meat comes from the grocery store right?

Just kidding.  My wife swears she cannot eat ground beef anymore.  Tastes rotten to her she claims.  We've been eating our ground venison solely now for close to 20 years.

I swear, one of my wife's friends will not acknowledge that meat comes from animals.

[Rhinoron247]

I would send your son with picks of the butchering process as "Show and Tell". 

When my daughter was in 6th grade I had her do a report our on our Family Chicken Butcher day.  I even sent her with a pair of feet. 

It was met with the same type of response fromt he teachers and I told them to FO &D and get real and wake up to life.

She then took a trophy from her first kill a "porcupine foot" she had cut off and cured with Borax to school as show and tell the very next year.  I was so proud of her.  She is now a JR in High School and still packs that thing around. 

[saylean]

I'd also ask that teacher where her purse and shoes come from! Cram it with wallnuts in my opinion. My GF's boy, Haydin, who has recently become addicted to bear breakfast sausage always talks about going bear hunting, etc.

I can guarantee that he will be well versed in the ways of life and how it goes.

I'd tell her your just eating free range animals. 

Good for you and your boy, keep it up.

We had a creative writing story assignment when I was younger...I shot a rabbit and tanned the hide, making it the cover for the book, cause my story was about me being stranded on an island (it was my journal)...

the teacher didnt appreciate it.

my dad did. 

[waoutdoorsman]

it only gets worse-wait till they hit college. dang tree huggers are everywhere

[wastickslinger]

My teachers really use to love it when dad would take me out of school to go hunting for a week. I told one teacher that I learned alot more from my dad that week than anything she could have taught me. She didnt appreciate that either. But dang that was the truth.

[bow4elk]

I think as parent's it's our duty to properly educate our children.  My kids went through a curiosity phase of asking if certain animals have "meat" in them.  That is how the brain develops.  It's natural.  Why are babies born with the instinct to put things in their mouths - it's to discover and learn about what is food and what is not.

My 1st grader goes to school with elk sausage in her lunchpail.  She loves it and isn't shy sharing with her friends and explaining where it comes from.  No teacher ridicule yet, but conferences are coming up soon at her school  

Formative years are the most critical in getting children on the right path.  They don't have to hunt, bait a hook, or even go hiking to enter adult life with the "right" way of thinking cemented in their minds.  And there just ain't a damn thing wrong with teaching your kids reality!

I once saw a bumper sticker that read, "if we are not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?"

[WDFW-SUX]

"if we are not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?"

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Yup, it's gods work.  If he did not intend us to eat animals, he should not have made them out of meat.  Reminds me of the old Far Side cartoon where the lions had just killed a "tofutabeast".  They start eating it and one of them stands up and sys "Hey, What The..."

[demontang]

I have heard this kind of thing from a few people when my buy talks about me hunting, some people need to pull there head out and look around a little.

[300rum]

We had a full school assembly one time. Sitting in the bleachers, I looked up and saw Dad standing there in the doorway of the gym in full camo. He got me out of there at half-day and my shotgun and clothes were in the cab and I changed on the road and we nailed the geese that night. Talk about the bragging rights that I had, not one of the others boys' dads would have done that.

That wasn't the first or last time dad did that, just the first time where I could brag to the whole school, in front of all the teachers and the upper classmen.   Thanks Dad.

I can't wait till my daughters get to school......Hookie!