On-farm slaughter interview

[Carl Russell]

Here is a link to an you-tube clip of an interview I did for the local TV station. They have a daily show produced by UVM Extension featuring Ag-related issues.

Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcxiIJyevI

Carl

[Simple Living]

I knew it, Carl is a TV STAR ! Very nice.

Congrats,
Gordon

[Barw]

Nice video Carl. We do the same on our farm only I have a brother-in-law that has a custom meat shop with all the equipment.It helps a great deal.
barw

[mink]

what day is that going to be on tv carl?

[Carl Russell]

mink;14480 wrote:

what day is that going to be on tv carl?

I haven’t been told yet. It is part of a series on Raising Beef in Vermont.
I’ll post the air time when I know.
Thanks you guys, Carl

[matt wny]

interesting little clip!i have raised and butchered a steer and a couple pigs every year for the last 10 years or so. we would butcher them and take the halves to a local slaughter house to cut and wrap.about 2 years ago they told me that they could no longer process farm kill meat because of the usda.the animal had to be killed and inspected at the facility.i am in new york i am not sure if this is a state rule or if it is the particular butchers that i deal with but the three that i know of within 20 miles of me all told me the same story.so the last two steers i have butchered i have cut and wraped myself but the hogs i hauled over live and had the slaughter house kill and process.

[Scyther]

Very well spoken and informative. Quite the budding media star too. First the SFJ and now the internet and soon coming to TV. Will you now be wearing sunglasses indoors, and at night?:D

[bivol]

good job Car, good points!

i really like your points of focusing on humane life rather than humane death. salughtering i a quick proces, a few hours, in comparance to a life of a couple of wears. good points, we should focus on the quality of their life and their death, not only their life.

it may sound harsh, i think it is hypocrisy to care about what an animal goes through the last few hours, and not look at what it goes through it’s entire life, a few years! so, no matter what conditions it lived in its entire life (concrete crate, no sun and social interaction), it’s OK, because it is slaughtered so it don’t feel anything…
this incomplete thinking makes me sad…

anyway, good job!

[rdgfrm]

Nice interview, it is unforunate that so much of our society have no connection to the food that they eat. There is so much more than they realize, just being able to touch and smell it before it makes it to the plate makes a big difference to an individual.

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