FARM TO TABLE

[BlueTiki]

Could you raise an animal that would be killed in order to feed you?

As long as it wasn't named.

My father won a steer in a Team Roping event when I was a kid . . . a white-faced Hereford.  He became my "pet". 

At the time, he was raising and breeding Angus (about 100 head) for sale.  We all new these were beef cattle and, when butchered and aged, we enjoyed them.

I never saw Garrett as one of the beef cattle.  I understood the difference between the two.

And I cried and refused to eat any beef from our freezers, for over a year, when one day I found out he went with some of the Angus, to the butcher.

I didn't speak to my father or brothers for 6 months.

I was seven years old (and it still hurts thinking about it).