Friday, February 6, 2009

Free Range Animals




In rural China I saw a lot of free range animals.  Ducks, chickens, goats.   I saw my first animal be killed, too.  It was a duck or goose.  I was really surprised how the animal was killed, because I thought they would chop its head off, but no.  They let it bleed to death.  It was quite shocking to me.  I kept staring at the animal as it slowly died.  The family that was going to eat it kept looking at me.  Very interesting experience. 

1 comment:

christine said...

They probably knew it would be different for you. It is quite shocking to see animals being killed when we come from the US. I saw animals being slaughtered in Morroco and Egypt and I'll never get used to it. Think of it this way---these countries can't afford growth hormones and crappy food that goes into our meat in America. Its free range/organic and a lot healtheir than what you'd get back home.