Goat Meat

Yesterday morning, I had to take a goat over to the butcher's in Brookville, KY. This is one aspect of goat farming that I don't particularly enjoy. But, you do raise meat goats for a specific purpose - to provide meat. I am sure the goats know what is going on, which makes it even harder. I try not to get attached to the ones that will eventually end up at the butcher's. But, every once in a while, there is one and yesterday Tipper (the goat) was that one.

Normally, when we take the goat into the pen at the butcher's, I try not to look around at the animals in the other pens. Yesterday, one cow caught my eye and my heart melted - some country girl am I! If you have ever seen the movie Pauley (it is about a parrot's adventures trying to get back home). Anyway, there is a scene in that movie where Pauley escapes into an animal-testing laboratory and he frees all the animals. For a fleeting moment, that urge crossed my mind. I am sure if I did that, I would be looking for a new butcher (and USDA butchers that processed goats are very hard to find).