Day 89 - Honoring Food
Yesterday hanging out with Cameron and Katie we butchered a cow. I had never been part of this process before.
It was enlightening and challenging
Here are some pictures
Chopping it up
Continued:
I have had to kill animals before on our homestead but never that big of an animal.
It required moments of bravery and doing the thing, because once you're committed to it, there's no 'back door' you go ahead. That was valuable for me, and seeing how we did it within the starting point of honoring the life in the cow, the purpose of why they had the cow, and seeing it all the way through.
I see in our modern world we have become SOFT.
This life of convenience, where we eat our 'microwave burgers' but don't take part in the processing or the slaughtering of the animal.
Then even if you try and be 'vegan' because you don't wanna kill an animal, you still participate in a system that kills plants which are living, which disrupts ecosystems, kills bugs, all sorts of death happens from our system and our current way of living.
As a man I see this is where I can make a change and do my part.
This is where kindness comes in.
And a genuine effort to live in the best way, in alignment with life, realizing that as humans we need food, so how do we create this system in the best way.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to avoid seeing the full picture of creating food that ends up being consumed by me
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I can't learn new things, I can't learn HOW to prepare the meat AND do it in a way that's best
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to react to the gross nature of animals and humans, where there are aspects of raising animals and preparing them to become food that is not pleasant, so I had avoided it, at a COST and thus limiting myself in my actual effectiveness as a human being
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to categorize humans into types of humans, like you have the ranchers, the farmers who do all the dirty work, then you have the business people who sell it, meanwhile dividing up our entire system into silos that create a breakdown in our network of trust as humanity, where I don't trust 90% of the food out there, ultimately leading to a breakdown of our world
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that for thousands of years humans have lived more closely to the raising and killing of animals, and this can be perfected into a way that minimized suffering and maximizing life flourishing
I realize that learning the ranching/homestead way of life has a level of fundamental support for me to respect life, take life more seriously and ultimately HONORING life
I realize that I appreciate food even more from learning how the process works, and holding the intention to do it in the best way
I commit myself to be an example of what an effective farmer/homesteader/rancher can be like, between myself and the others in the Self-Perfected community who are committed to recreating the systems to be best for all, in a way that honors life in all forms
I commit myself to raise my kinds in a way where they can appreciate food, the interconnectedness of where food comes from, and to have an accurate view of the world
I commit myself to show what's possible with our world, where animals, plants, human beings can all have the best for all relationship, and we can discover the actual best way to create food, live alongside nature and understand this from a young age through the mass re-education of the children of the world to have living principles
Everyone - UNDERSTAND the system we live in
Bring awareness to each step and we can purify this system to one that honors life in all forms.
Its each of us taking the responsibility to do our part and work together
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