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Tour organizers cancel chicken slaughter

Submitted by mschultz on 09/11/2009 - 19:02

Tags: OrangeChat | Board of Aldermen | Carrboro

From Sammy Slade:

"We, the Carrboro Greenspace collective, are very sorry that some people have been upset by the inclusion of the Chicken processing skillshare as part of the Urban Farm Tour. We didn't anticipate the controversy it would cause. Our reasoning was that if we are serious about creating a sustainable food system, animal processing must be a part of the discussion. We do sincerely appreciate your very real concerns and the willingness to engage in this conversation. We feel continuing this conversation is absolutely crucial for our long term efforts in creating a sustainable small-scale food system which is what the Urban Farm Tour is about. As such, instead of the original skillshare we are inviting the community to participate in an honest and respectful discussion starting at 3:30pm at 'The Bog' (Pleasant Street and Crest Street in Carrboro)."

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Thu, 11/12/2009 - 05:19 — DARSH33

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Tue, 11/10/2009 - 16:21 — up00com

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 16:29 — semsem777

Eating Live Chickens or Only Road Kill

Sat, 09/12/2009 - 07:49 — bigsurmac

The only person dumber than a country type in the city, is the average urban dweller in the country.
People who can't stand the thought of slaughtering livestock for high-quality protein, should volunteer to eat live birds, fish and animals or settle for what Road Kill they can find.
Or eat lots of soy products and leave all that awful meat for us savages.
When I was a child and the community hay and small grain harvest crews were scheduled for our ranch, fried chicken was the standard fare.
Since I was expected to carry about 100 gallons of water daily, along with nearly 100 lbs. of feed, and dispose of the expectable results regularly -- hopefully I can be forgiven for absolutely loving fried chicken.
The biggest problem was those doggone chickens could not be trained to jump into the big cast-iron frying pans, atop the wood burning cook stove.
Which meant I used a four-foot long heavy wire to catch chickens by the leg and hand them to my frontier-bred mother.
It usually took me 20-60 seconds to catch and hand two birds to her. It required a split second for her to grasp a bird's head in each hand and with quick wrist spins, decapitate the bird.
Usually took a minute or two for the bird to quit flopping on the grass.
After that, dipping the seven or eight dead birds into a big cast iron pot of boiling water. [The pot rested on an iron ring within a large rocked circle with a wood fire at the edge of the yard.]
My job then was to dip several birds, then pluck the wet feathers as quickly as possible, the hot water generating extreme speed in my hands.
Then my mother would sharpen her special knife and in about 20 seconds for each bird, slit the abdominal skin, remove the body contents, sort liver, heart and gizzard, to add to gravy.
Then, carefully wash each bird, inside and out and cut into serving pieces.
We knew where our food originated and how it got to the table. We ground our own corn, butchered our own beef and pork, shot the rabbits, caught the fish from our stocked ponds.
Another of my normal chores, included raising the garden.
Alternating short sections of rows, with a dozen types planted weekly, several plots planted monthly.
Harvests crews were at the table, when I would dash to the garden, grab two previously-marked "white" sweet corn ears for each person, run to the boiling iron pot, husk and silk the corn ears and dump them in -- within seconds of harvesting.
Delivered steaming to the tables set under shade trees in the yard, covered with fresh churned butter, that was the first of at least two servings of corn-on-the-cob.
This also would be educational for city folks, but then again, it would probably be too brutal for some

Disappointing surrender

Fri, 09/11/2009 - 20:57 — marcoplos

This makes you wonder if he's cut out to be an alderman.

There was no reason to not go ahead with this reasonable and educational event.

Sammy Slade was acting out of consideration

Sun, 09/13/2009 - 19:47 — marianneprince

Sammy is extremely qualified to be an Aldermen. He channeled the outrage into a productive discussion at the Urban farm tour. I think that was a very clever solution to the controversy, and was very educational for the crowd that participated. It wasn't a display of weakness or giving in, but one of compromise. He turned the dispute into and educational opportunity. I personally look forward to having an Alderman that can think on his feet, resolve disputes, and educate the public at the same time, especially while juggling many responsibilities, all of which are efforts to try and make Carrboro one of the greatest places to live.

The chickens haven't been granted a reprieve. There will be an upcoming skillshare for those who want to learn more about the process.

He is not qualified.

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 06:56 — elvisboy77

If he were qualified, he would have recognized up front that this would be controversial and that "most" people would find it offensive, and avoided the whole mess. Instead he was left to scramble and provide "damage control" as the MSM says.

He is either out of touch with mainstream Carrboro or doesn't care what they think. I am sure either way that makes him a hit with the fringe population.

He will probably win because most of the people who actually fund the Carrboro government thru property taxes will have to go to a full time job on election day, and won't take the time to vote. This will leave those who don't with an advantage. I hope the working folks prove me wrong this time.

Excuses

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 11:12 — fhblack

We have several weeks to vote, including a Saturday.

Excuses.

Was their really controversy?

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 08:27 — marcoplos

I didn't see any real controversy. One person writes a letter, one alderman makes a mountain out of a molehill regarding health regulations that didn't apply, and the CH News ran an article to flame it up.

Beyond that, we got the expected noise from the regular suspects - our local teabaggers Kramer, Ryan, Braying Voice - who knee-jerk predictably at every opportunity to criticize anything about Carrboro.

That doesn't add up to much real opposition.

I disagree Mark

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 19:08 — tbuckner

You are grossly undercounting the number of people who were upset by this proposal. Just because you saw 1 letter and 1 elected official speaking out doesn't mean that's all there was.

Personally, I think a public display of how to slaughter a chicken is tasteless and disrespectful. While I agree that people need to know where their food comes from and what it takes to put that food in the nice neat plastic wrapped container they buy, I think the skill of slaughter should be taught on the job not as spectator sport. It's not the slaughter I found so repugnant as it was the idea of doing it as public display.

For those connected with the realities of animal raising

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 08:12 — marcoplos

It doesn't seem to fit the category of a public display, as you are using the phrase. It's simply a necessary and traditionally common-place act. It needs to be done outside. It was a workshop, so people were made aware of it. This whole issue is indicative of how disconnected we are collectively and how uneducated in practical living.

Again, I disagree-

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 18:47 — tbuckner

There are a lot of common-place acts that we don't support for public viewing.

Look at the growth in the farmers market, the success of the CFSA tours, and the support for the community garden, modified ordinances to allow backyard chickens, etc. The local populace is obviously a lot more connected to practical living and local food sources than you think. This was a single event around which there was disagreement. That doesn't constitute a pattern of being disconnected to practical living. It was a disagreement on how to respectfully process meat.

Which proves my point

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 19:36 — elvisboy77

That Sammy Slade is not fit for office. Absolutely no clue as to the values of the community he seeks to serve.

teabagger's

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 09:45 — k5warwagon

	teabagger -
	multiple meanings. 1) one who carries large bags of packaged tea for shipment. 2) a man that squats on top of a womens face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" 3) one who has a job or talent that is low in social status 4) a person who is unaware that they have said or done something foolish, childlike, noobish, lame, or inconvenient. 5) also see "fagbag", "lamer", "noob" So which definition are you implying?

Voting

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 07:34 — tbuckner

"most of the people who actually fund the Carrboro government thru
property taxes will have to go to a full time job on election day, and
won't take the time to vote."

If they don't "take the time to vote", they shouldn't complain.

You missed my point

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 05:46 — elvisboy77

They just don't care. They are too busy earning a living. Outside the world of "non-profits" people may have to work more than 5 days a week. To pay for all the Carrboro Follies. If they started paying attention, this would all end. One can always hope.

Do you live in Carrboro?

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Eating Live Chickens or Only Road Kill

Disappointing surrender

Sammy Slade was acting out of consideration

He is not qualified.

Excuses

Was their really controversy?

I disagree Mark

For those connected with the realities of animal raising

Again, I disagree-

Which proves my point

teabagger's

Voting

You missed my point

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