"Kill It, Cook It, Eat It"

[nappy]

On the Current channel 358 on Directv is showing now until 6:00 pm EST. It will be shown again Fri. 1/28 @ 7 pm EST, and on Sat. 1/29 @ 3 am and 11 am EST. The documentary takes place in the UK. There are parts I am unable to view as it is graphic....I'm a wuss!

ETA:
The is our first time watching this but I see that it has been on every week for awhile. Website regarding the program: http://current.com/shows/kill-it-cook-it-eat-it/

[MattyD]

-I just watched it too. Never heard of the show before either. The look on their faces especially while the hogs were being bled out was priceless. Where I grew up, we had our little village festival. There would be a hog butchering session there. The only thing I couldn't stand was dipping the hog in the hot tank before the hair was shaved off. Man, does that stink! But after they'd gut the hog, we would tie off the stomach and toss it around like a medicine ball. I was taught as a kid everything from milking a cow to slaughtering it. We would butcher a heifer and divide the meat among the family.

L8R,
Matt

[hotzcatz]

Sheesh. Dunno as if TV sorts of folk can handle knowing where their food comes from. Why don't they ask any of us to be on their show? Betcha we could give them some good tips on killing, cooking and eating things. Being able to get edible stuff attractively on a plate is one of the prime qualities of folks who survive well in rural areas.

Now, if the show wants to go a bit further, there's always the eat it raw and still kicking theme. Generally that's stuff like mollusks and prawns, though. Lots of fish is eaten raw as well as a variety of other sorts of sushi and sashimi things. Nobody gets all huhu about that!

[MaineFarmMom]

I think it's long overdue and that we should be encouraging people to learn about food. Good for them.

[michiganfarmer]

Hi Nappy!

[julieq]

Originally Posted by MaineFarmMom

I think it's long overdue and that we should be encouraging people to learn about food. Good for them.

Yep! I grew up helping to butcher wild hog, deer, quail and pheasant. We had our steers professionally butchered and wrapped, but in a pinch we wouldn't have had a problem taking care of those either.

[geo in mi]

BTDT, all..... Cow, pig(butchering and 'cutting'), chickens, rabbits, fish(hundreds). That's why the true farmers call 'em "city slickers", don't you know? If you want to eat, it has to be done.....otherwise, eat greens.

geo

[nappy]

The group who participated in the butchering, etc. were from different walks of life....including a vegan and a (single?) mother trying to save money on groceries. The documentary showed the various methods of raising livestock such as pastured/free-ranging versus penned in smaller spaces. The program is intended to show from where our food starts, and how it is prepared to get to the store and then on our table.

Originally Posted by michiganfarmer

Hi Nappy!

Howdy Max!!

[marinemomtatt]

I don't much care for the show, in fact I've deleted the record function for it.
Sure show city folk where meat comes from, but please show it like it is here in the real world of super market meat. The show is for mambypamby, fluff bunnies who walk around singing Disney tunes.

[B & B Farms]

Wow Marinemomtatt, everyone has to start somewhere and if just one person learns something from this show then that is a good thing...right or was that to fluffy bunnies for you??

My partner doesn't like to be there when I butcher a hog each fall or a chicken just for a special dinner but she sure doesn't mind eating what I butcher!

Allene

[marinemomtatt]

Nope not to fluffy, guess I'm just contrary.

Still don't like the show. I did like the series that had young teens actually working the farms and factories in Asia for the same amount of pay that 'locals' received/worked hard for.

[B & B Farms]

I would like a link to that show MMT, something to show my spoiled "big city" nephews!

I am contrary too...but it has to start somewhere and these are almost lost arts...other than this forum and a hand full of others pretty much like it I don't know of many folks who can butcher a hog or goat or even a chicken for that matter...well darnit now I am hungry!

Allene

[marinemomtatt]

Perhaps I'm having issues with the fact that so many folks are wearing blinders when it comes to where their food really comes from, the majority of which doesn't come from cute little farms.
In these hard times meat like what's grown and butchered on those farms isn't affordable for the average person. ($7 lb. for ground beef...yikes)

The show about the fast food teens was called "Blood Sweat and Takeaways"
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/...eat-takeaways/

[Home Harvest]

Your opinion is valid, marinemomtatt, but I hope that isn't the point of the show. I hope they aren't encouraging people to buy gourmet specialty meats. I truly hope they are being encouraged to grow their own food, and be more self-sufficient.

My wife and I have been working toward a self-sustaining homestead for about 15 years now. We started with chickens given to us by a friend, and it grew from there. Neither of us grew up on a farm. I now routinely slaughter chicken, rabbit, goat, & turkey raised on our place. We also havest a couple of deer a year, and do our own butchering.

I understand your point, given the extreme lack of knowledge of most people. But maybe that's the point. Why shouldn't more people learn to do what my wife and I are doing? Why shouldn't more people garden, and keep at least rabbits & chickens for meat? My ground goat & venison doesn't cost me anywhere near $7.00 per pound. Why are these people on the show if they aren't planning to grow this stuff themselves? I'd hope that this show (which I haven't seen as I don't have cable or satellite) would make more people ask that question and see that they can do this themselves.

[City Bound]

I watched two episodes. I like the show, it is informative. The show helps me put things into perspective. I never knew how much time and energy goes into raising the larger farm animals. The show said it takes two years to raise a cow to slaughtering weight. I could never invest that much time in an animal. Do people even break even on the invested time and money it take to raise a cow?

I think if many everyday people watched this show they might have a little more respect for the meat they buy. It is so sad that people think of food as something cheap and they toss the leftovers away. All that time invested and consumers toss most of it in the trash. What a waste.

[tamsam]

We always started raising a calf in the spring and butchered it in the fall. Same with pigs. When you have to buy feed and hay all winter the cost is high. You would be surprised how many people have no idea where beef or pork or chicken comes from. They think it is made in the grocery store. We now don't do cows or pigs but would if we had the pasture to, but we do process deer and such as we would beef it it was here. Thought about raising a goat or 2 to butcher but they would be pets as the 2 we have. Good luck beefing it up. Sam

[hotzcatz]

Folks are interested in learning. When several neighbors found out we process the excess roosters they came over for lessons. Some of them continued on to raise their own, others of them found reasons as to why they needed to find their excess roosters "a good home" instead of making them into soup.

[windyfarm]

I'm hungry now.

In Iowa they have a place where you can see the possum festival. Its greasy.

[marinemomtatt]

My inlaws raise their own Beef and come butcher time they usually wind up having to donate some of the beef because folks don't want to pay for half a cow, they just want a bit of this or that and expect it to be grocery store priced. They don't think about how much it costs to feed and grow healthy cows.
This year (since they couldn't find buyers last year) they're going to butcher and donate 4 cows. We keep telling them we'll buy half a cow but MIL says "No, I'll sneak ya some" and she does...along with some of her man's wild caught Salmon!
Last Summer we butchered 25 Chickens...during swarm season, we won't be doing that again because as we were elbows deep in guts and feathers we watched one of our colonies swarm and there was no stopping the butchering to catch them. Butcher day will have to be in late Fall after the Yellowjackets are gone.

[calliesue]

I would like to know what kind of knife you use for butchering, and what other tools you would need to get started.