intense choices
sending the turkey’s spirit out photo by stephen filla
photo stephen filla
Sunday was one the most intense days of my life. When one thinks back on the moments that changed your life, many of them involve a birth, or a death. I have several moments of these with the humans in my life. To those moments of great importance, I now add death experiences with animals that I raised, cared for and nurtured to the day of their death on my farm.
sue and mary plucking one of the turkeys that came home for their thanksgiving feasts photo stephen filla
sue with her beautiful Bronze- 22lbs of delicious good life turkey photo stephen filla
This may seem an oxymoron- raised and cared for, nurtured, and then KILLED!? I have to allow that- this is a contradiction in many ways. I welcome discussion about the ethics of eating animals. because I am gonna tell you that I am practicing what I preach on my farm. Know your food, acknowledge that it was an animal, and know how it lived. Don’t eat misery. Don’t eat without deep thoughts, because that which you ingest is going to nourish you, and I can’t imagine what kind of nourishment you would get from miserable animals.
this is the turkey I will be giving thanks over, with my family. he was giving me one last show, what a beautiful guy. photo stephen filla
my bourbon red tom turkey
check out the gooble-dee-gook on my guy! photo stephen filla
from a beautiful, noble dude on my farm, to a feast to truly be thankful for- here he is in the final stage before roasting overnight on wednesday eve
photo stephen filla
photo stephen filla
photo stephen filla
Thanksgiving will never be the same for me, nor for the amazing people who came out and processed their own bird with me. I owe everyone a round of applause for a job well done, well thought out, and enjoyed. Thank you.
