My cow is too cute to eat!

[that's*satyrical]

Quite on topic here. This is a dinner conversation we had with our 7 year old grand daughter Emma on Saturday night. We were eating BBQ ribs.

She says, "What is ribs, pig?"
I said, "yep."
She says, "Like your pigs?"
I said, "yep."
She says, "Do you still have your pigs?"
I said, "No, didn't you notice?"
She said, "No." "Are these your pigs?"
I said, "yep."
She put it down and said, "I'm a little sad."

That was the end of the BBQ ribs for Em. The farmer and I ate ours however and they were delish!

Awww!!! Poor Em.

 

[Hickoryneck]

It is hard but as everyone has said he will grow to be huge and get on your nerves last year we bought a piglet the kids were all upset they said she is to cute to eat I explained that yes she was cute now but would get big and not so cute so we would put her in the freezer and buy another cute pig they were happy with that answer they like having a endless supply of babies to raise and when the day comes can handle it, they wanted to kill the chickens the other day I made them settle for helping with the plucking they are 7 and 10. I do not have cattle but they are allowed to play with any bird or animal here once it gets big they naturally lose interest so killing it is not hard on them at all and they love eating the fresh meat and sharing it with their cousins and friends

 

[Mike Fronczak]

As others have said the "cuteness factor" wears off....then they start to wear on you.
The kids will be fine, when we started with two steers to finish for the summer then take to the butcher friends and family asked, what about the kids !!!! they will be upset. Now this is a true story about how "upset" my 6 year old was. A couple days after easter last spring (we sent the cows to the butcher the previous fall) my wife made a ham. Dinner was over, she was cutting it up to bag the leftovers, he wanted a piece, so she gave it to him, while still eating the chunk of ham he asked her "where does ham come from ?" She told him "pig". He walk into the living room, stil chewing on the chunk of ham & says "Dad, we need to get some pigs". They appear to have a hard time with it in my eyes.

 

[suzeqf]

My aunt/uncle raise beef cattle and my daughter names them all and knows that they raise cows to eat but she doesn't want to eat the bottle babies but is ok with eating the ones raised by their moms so far all the bottle babies have been keepers and are heifers my aunt weans early but they can still get pushy if you are in the lot with them and the cuteness factor goes away after they are about 3m months old with me , she was the same way with our eggs it took her 6 months before she would eat one because she didn't want to eat a baby chick but nows she's older and has already decided if worse comes to worse which roo's will get the ax.