The winner gets converted into sausages and other meat products. "I think man has lost touch with his food," said Dennis Buchman, the creator of the Meine Kleine Farm (My Little Farm) initiative. "People eat a sausage like a carrot; without any thought about what goes into it."
Mr Buchman selects the pigs from a free-range farm near Berlin, photographs them and then places the pictures online with descriptions of the animals. He also updates the website with the latest information detailing the lives of each pig so people can follow their progress.
Bernd Schulz, the farmer involved, gave the initiative his enthusiastic backing. "We have to face up to the fact that we descended from hunter-gathers," he said. "But we must also show respect and reverence for the animals, and think about those that die for us." He added that he also wants people to come to his farm to meet the pigs before sitting down for hog roast.
4 comments:
Hey, maybe this will help people NOT eat meat.
Whilst I think it's important to realise where your food comes from and if you don't like the idea of having an animal killed for your lunch, don't eat meat.. Putting people off your product doesn't sound like the greatest way to make money.
That just might make a vegetarian of me.
I think it's a good idea for people to (at least once) catch, kill and eat a fish, rabbit, then pig, whatever.. Just to hammer home where the food comes from and that it was once alive and trying not to be eaten.. However I'd be afraid that some people would think "well, that was easy, I could do it to a person just as simply".
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