I though you would be interested in seeing a few photographs of my meat rabbit kits throughout the past month-and-a-half. We all could use a break to look at adorable bunnies, couldn't we?

No the brown one is not a "wild" rabbit, although he does look like one, doesn't he?


Unfortunately, although the photos were in order by date, they have since been scrambled. They're still cute, though.

The Joys of the "Harvest"?

It has been brought to my attention that "slaughter" and "kill" are no longer the PC words to use when describing the processing process. Apparently, we are supposed to use the word "harvest," instead. And I tried, I really did. Using the word in that way left a bad taste in my mouth, the taste of lying. No matter how hard I try, my brain will just not let me decieve the public. What a shame.

Why are we trying to hide a vital part of agriculture? Why are we trying to make what we do into something dirty? The consumer doesn't like the word harvest for meat, they feel that they're being lied to, or worse, treated like idiots. The farmer or producer doesn't like the word harvest for meat, they feel like they're being deceptive. I can understand the use of the term "Processing" as everybody knows what a processing plant is and what it does, but harvest is for vegetables. I butcher or process a rabbit, I harvest a tomato or an egg. Processing implies that a product is changed, harvest implies it is collected as a whole unit, without being changed or altered.

I'm afraid I'll never be PC and that's fine. I am who I am, and I can't be someone I'm not. Who would you trust, though, someone who uses a deceptive term to protect your feelings as though you weren't very intelligent, or someone who's brutally honest? I know what I would choose!