blog #8

When I was little my mother always used to tell me these stories of how she lived on a farm in the Philippines. I don't remember the stories completely but I knew they had plenty of animals. Well two years ago I went to the Philippines for the first time and we got to visit my mom's homeland. Though I couldn't get the full experience and view what she had been telling me about because the volcano erupted there before I got there and destroyed majority of the land, we went to her brother's which had also been affected by the volcano but they still had little land left. They also still had their barn with pigs. I have never seen pigs this big. I pretty much am disgusted by pigs which is ironic since I am Filipino and one of our main dishes is lechon, roasted pig, which I don't eat by the way. I never understood why there was a whole pig with the head still on and feet laying across a long plate with vegetables around it as a design and decorative purposes on the table. It's expensive and I was never really around it in my household until we went to another Filipino gathering where they served food and it was the main dish. I remember seeing the pig for the first time, I was terrified. I remember this feeling when I went to the Philippines and saw the slaughtering of pigs just to prepare a traditional dish. It bothered me deeply that they cruel way they slaughter animals just to provide food for the human race. In relation to Pollan, my perspective is simply how animals on a farm are treated. I didn't like what my uncle and his workers had to do and could not bare to watch it. Going back to my presentation in class which was related to chicken slaughter and the view that I had that it didn't bother me completely, I think I've come to a conclusion. In conclusion I think that there is no humane way to kill these animals because they make it quick and without suffering and that they do this to keep us alive. This is our source of food and without these animals, we would have none because majority of people are not omnivores, and they do need meat for we are mostly all carnivores.