Do Your Kids Realize

[Leigh]

Heck, I'm not so sure *I* know where they come from because I surely wouldn't be eating a burger while looking in the big brown eyes of Bessie. Somehow I have been able to separate that fact from the raw meat in the store.

Sometimes while we're eating we'll have discussions about what animal gives us milk, eggs, hamburgers, etc. I haven't had anyone horrified so I'm thinking they separate it in their mind like I do.

I used to live on a farm. Sometimes, I'd look out the window and see cows close to the barn and completely lose my appetite for what I was cooking at the moment. I eat a lot more beef now that I don't have to see those cows anymore! I have a friend that owns a butcher shop. She eats largely vegetarian-says she just "CAN'T" eat it after cutting it up all day.

[Controlled Chaos]

My son gets it. We were at the store recently and we were walking past the meat section and he yelled "Mom look at all that meat, they are killing everything" ::

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[EntropyControlSpecialist]

Today they ate salmon. One of mine was convinced salmon was not a kind of fish but was actually a crocodile. ::

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

Considering I've had chicken at least once a week with cute little baby chickens in my house with no problems I guess they either don't make the connection yet or just don't care. My daughter says we keep "pretty" chickens and eat "ugly" ones, so that's how she separates it.

Hilarious!! ::

[kitykids3]

Usually the conversation goes something like this.

Dck: what is this?
Me: baked chicken.
Dck: it doesn't look like chicken... I don't like it. I only like chicken nuggets.
Me: it's just like chicken nuggets but without the breading.
Dck: chicken nuggets? Like From McDonalds?
Me: ...Sure. But it's even better than McDonald's chicken.
Dck: ok! (Eats it) this is the best McDonald's chicken nuggets I've ever had!
Me: 😎

Never gotten to the part that it's from a chicken. If I can get them to eat it then I call it a win.

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