re: Children- Telling them what meat is....

I’ve always told my kids where meat comes from. It doesn’t seem to phase them. I even showed my 4-year-old a pig at a pig roast once. I wasn’t sure how he would take it since you can really see the pig mouth and ears. He took one look and said, “Mmm...bacon.” Just give your kid a slice of bacon right before you explain things.

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It wasn't too long ago in human history that every child at a young age would have been exposed to the actual slaughtering of the animals on the farm.

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Do the lambs still cry out to you Clarice?

Interesting question. Since my child’s birth I’ve brought dead fish, birds, and mammals home. He has seen them gutted, cleaned, and cooked. Never had to explain. Fried deer blackstrap in my house might even trump tooth fairy on the excitement level.

We've always just been very frank and casual with our kids.

"Yes, this is duck. You know those little yellow birds in your book? Well, sometimes we eat them."

Usually after they eat some, so the response is always something like, "I like duck!"

We also let our 3 year old "save a crawfish" before we dump the rest in boiling water.

I don't think there is a need to sugarcoat it. We are humans. We eat some animals. "No, we don't eat dogs and cats" has been said to our oldest as well.

Don't complicate the basics. If they want to be tree hugging PETA members when they grow up, well, I'll do like any self respecting father and kill myself.

Your child is going to grow up retarded and scream at the sky.

Congratulations, Father of the Day.

Dinosaurs, what else... Isn't Tyson based in Arkansas..?

my son grew up hearing me use the phrase "fried dead animal"

Give him a knife and a chicken and tell him he needs to make his own nuggets.

I abandoned my kids before this ever became an issue