I’ve been reading here about Mark Zuckerberg’s new challenge, which is not to eat any meat, except the meat from animals that he has personally killed. His first kill was a lobster, which he plunged into a pot of boiling water. Now he’s killing chickens, but there is no mention in the news about how he kills his chickens. First of all, where does he get live chickens? Does he raise chickens in his back yard?
When I was a child, my family had a “hen house” and a “chicken pen” in the back yard. Now most cities have laws against raising chickens in a residential neighborhood.
When my mother ran out of pullets, and didn’t want to kill and eat the laying hens, she would go uptown to a store that sold live chickens. (A pullet is a young female chicken.) Then she would bring the chicken home and keep it in our chicken pen until Sunday morning when it was time to kill it for our Sunday dinner. (more…)
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