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I started last august and use my commute to work by bus to read. hopefully I’ll be done this year.

I have slaughtered chicken, rabbits, goats, pigs.. etc, and although my early experiences weren’t quite as successful as I would have liked (meaning a quick, preferrably instant death), I have learned from my mistakes.
No I do NOT do this for fun. I do it for meat. I do not think animals are at the same level with humans so I have no problems with slaughtering animals for food or to put them out of their misery. I do however have a problem with people who do it in cruel ways or who are such chickens themselves that they end up doing it the wrong way and prolong the animal’s suffering.
I don’t believe in the “chicken running around without heads” thing. That is a stupid way to do things. I use a small pellet gun (for chickens and rabbits) to put the pellet directly in the animal’s brain, killing them instantly. The other method is doing a brain stab using a small knife through the mouth, directly into the brain.
There is no struggle and little bleeding with this method (I can bleed them after they’re dead to minimize suffering) and I’ve never had an animal alive for even a few seconds after the first shot.
You can get emotional if you want, but I know that my animals have not suffered needlessly, and I am so gentle with them that they never knew what hit them.

And it definitelly helps a lot. We still live paycheck to paycheck because we’re paying back debts, but we’re not borrowing from the future anymore, and at the end of the month we still have a little left.