Sasha Distan

AWWW!

well that's slightly scary.

Can i just slink off and hide without getting into trouble?

review

thanks Suvi, i like to think so too

does the answer "both" make me look guilty?

itinerants

why am i to blame?

eros

Tell me about it. i tend to take the bright year 11's on higher level conversations like that, anything else is just incredibly hard. thanks bud. And absolutely. Nothing is wasted, never. We do not live on a planet designed to sustain 7 billion people. therein lies the route of most major global issues.

thanks you so much mickey. i'm glad you got over your fallen-in-love-with-the-wrong-guy guy.

i, almost entirely, agree with you. except that a good shot, a really good shot and the right gun, can and do kill big game with one shot. Hell, if my husband can get a rabbit through the eye socket on a regular basis - and he's not even that experienced... our friend Charlie can shoot a deer straight through the forehead from 400 metres. instant brain death.

glad we managed to keep a non horse person interested for 23 chapters. i consider that to be a great success.there was a hint that it might be Jase at the end? ok..... thanks for the lovely review, and thank for reading. i'll give you something without horses next time.

i try not to judge (anyone, for anything), but mostly, if no one's preaching, i don't much care. i won't cook vegetarian food though, you'll have to bring your own when you come to dinner. but i'll make it up to you with pudding.

would sir like to try the house barbecue chicken and beans?

alibi

Ah, the unbiased bit is that i will tell them very plain and clear The Truth about what happens to animals when they become meat and where their meat comes from. After all, that 'meat' had a life, often a pretty poor one if it was bought in a supermarket. i find especially with the town-kids, that you need to really spell it out for them - they seem to think that meat is this magical thing that doesn't have a life before it gets on the shelf. To be personally, out of the classroom, an animal is an animal, until it is killed to feed people. then it's meat.i think i usually make the split somewhere between it's death and the gutting process.

educated

I posted this so long ago, that i didn't have the lovely, wonderful, super editing team i have now. the chapters uploading to GA (starting right after xmas) have been picked over and fixed by the most wonderous Kitt as well as my pack-Beta in some form.

i come here for the food... why do you come here?

Bee - killing an animal for fun and killing an animal for meat are totally separate things. i would argue that they are mutually exclusive. Anyone who shoots a deer to make it a trophy or kills a wolf just to pose with a carcass can go to hell and i'll happily send them there myself. Killing for fun is wrong. But killing for meat is different. There is no fun. You wait, you are patient. You only make the shot if you know, and are certain, that you will kill and not cause suffering. Afterwards you are glad of a job well done, of food moving through the natural cycle of life. we eat liver, kidneys, meat. we keep the skins to make winter booties, some of the bones are turned into jewellery by my friend. The guts and pieces we can't use are recycled by the wilderness, crows and foxes, stouts and the like. I do not kill any animal for fun. a life is a life, and a death is a death, and it should be handled as such. Respect and care are our watch words. Addy - i try and merge the boundaries between "animals" and "meat" and often i will deliberately use the words interchangeably in class. The kids need to know that meat is animals and animal becomes meat. then they can make a decision about whether or not they are happy eating them.

erogenous

is anything we ever say in here of any use at all?

Urgh - the advent of Halal meat. Probably one of the cruelest things out there. it's all about knowing where your meat is from. as for fish, that is not a humane way to die, and fish feel pain (hook through the throat, ouchie) on the other hand, fishy are yummy. i have big issues buying fish, because so much is trawl caught and destroys the ocean floor and so much natural habitat.

I have not fixed the ending yet, but it's on the cards. we are currently editing for the chapters to go up on GA straight after xmas. you're going to love Chaska's cooking.