Slaughtering my first chicken felt like a rite of passage. We put it off for weeks and when it came time to do it, I felt both exhilarated and totally humbled by the experience. Suddenly it seemed so silly that I've eaten meat my entire life and had rarely even witnessed an animal being slaughtered, let alone done it myself. It felt important to finally experience it, to be entirely present for the moment in my body, mind and spirit and to feel that close to the life that would feed my family. We slaughtered three chickens and just a few days later, three little baby chicks hatched in the coop!
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