Comments on: Alive and Alert

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:53:25 +0000

Thanks Isabelle.
I’m not sure I like to watch animals being killed. But I was too busy taking pictures, so I didn’t see it in that way.

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:44:37 +0000

Alive (past), Alert (past) and Curious, wondering what’s happening if I may add (still present, on your picture) ! You are right Carsten, we should know where our food comes from and accept that someone has to do the dirty work. Even if I would not like to look at it…

By: Carsten

Carsten — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:52:34 +0000

I’d be sorry if I offended you. You seem fairly robust so I didn’t expect that.
I had other sensitive minds in mind.

I wouldn’t like to kill anything larger than flys and mosqitos. – Iberian snails perhaps! What I meant was that people should realize the cost of their behaviour. -Understand my meaning.
I eat almost everything except the small creatures I kill

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:25:19 +0000

Oh, I’m not offended. And I think you’re right. A fair proportion of my protein comes from critters I’ve met up close and personal. I can whack a fish without a qualm, but I can’t imagine chopping off a chicken’s head. I have to ask myself why? What’s the difference?

By: Carsten

Carsten — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:38:41 +0000

I’m aware that some of my visitors are very sensitive beings. I’ll do my best not to offend anyone.

But! I think that everybody should know where our food comes from. Just buying the meat in a plastic package from the super market – without realizing that someone had to do the dirty work. That’s not right in my opinion. I think that knowledge of the origin of our food is paying a little respect to the creatures that delivers our proteins.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:55:07 +0000

I appreciate that, Carsten. My grandmother kept chickens. They were very tasty chickens, too, but I never got used to the bloody doings at the chopping block.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:10:29 +0000

Sorry Gerry. I realize that the unpleasant facts of our handling of other creatures can be unbearable. -So I keep the other photos for the time being.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:25:38 +0000

Oh dear. Sometimes reality is more than I can bear for awhile.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:38:07 +0000

Yes, Carsten – a sad story it is… But what else to do? ?

Your photo shows that animals – in this case a rooster, is so much aware of what’s going on in life.
In a way he looks a kind of sad, as if he knows what is going to happen.
2 seconds later he was without his head ! ! !

see you

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:12:26 +0000

He wasn’t!
The story is that at our friend (Michael!) there is a chicken yard. Late last year they let some of the hens lay on eggs – and had chickens. It turned out that there was two rooster chickens. Instead of letting them fight the old rooster – the two chickens were slaughtered.
His look is influenced by the fact that he is held just before he was hit and ended his short life.