Hello everyone! Today is Wednesday and as some of you may already know by now it is my Opinion Wednesdays. Though my WordPress account is still following Dutch time which is almost 4 in the morning, on Saba it is still minutes to 10 at night on Wednesday. Today I am writing a little late, I know, I apologise.

Anyway, in this new blog post I will be talking about catching, killing, preparing and cooking your own food. Seems strange? I know! I usually do not think too much about things like this since I also eat meat and all, but today is a little different. First of all I would like to ask: has anyone (whoever happens to be reading this blog post) caught their own food, slaughtered/ butchered it and ate it? If yes, how did you feel about it?

I mean sure, growing up I have seen my father killing several livestock, for example pigs, in our backyard and cuttng them in half to weigh them and later cutting them into smaller portions to sell the meat and put the rest f the meat in the deep freezer for a later date for our family. Although, I was pretty young, I did not really have much qualms about seeing all of this being done in front of me or even eating the meat afterwards. I still do not have any qualms about it even to this day. The only problem I believe that I faced was the fact that it sometimes would stink and a lot of flies would gather around. That’s to be expected because it’s meat. Many people may think that this is a bit weird to have your child exposed to all of this but where I come from it is pretty normal. Some people on Saba keep animals in their backyard or property, raise them and when the owners think that the livestock are ready to be slaughtered, they butchered it to sell the meat or feed their family. It is just our way of life for some. I am not implying that everyone on Saba does this. Of course not! Only some. Continue reading →