[scottmandue]

My mom, dad, and wife all grew up in the country and thus we exposed to butchering.

Me, not so much... but I will fight for your right to go hunting and raise you own food.

I'm a spoiled city boy and too squeamish to hunt/butcher, the worst thing I have seen growing up is roadkill.

I'm about to retire and thinking of getting a meat grinder and making my own hamburger and sausage from large cuts of beef/pork we can get a Sam's club because of the rumors of the junk they throw in the grinder.

When I was single I could go for 3-4 days without eating meat and not miss it at all, no judgment just not a big meat eater. Maybe because my mom was from Kansas so every dinner had to have meat/taters/veggies and a salad)

Of course I married a county girl so a meal without meat is difficult to get by her.