Chicken has always been Chloe's favorite meat. I don't think she realized that the chicken she eats came from a once live chicken. Somehow in her mind there was a food chicken and then the feathered creature that clucks and scratches around the barnyard. Today at lunch she asked me where does food chicken come from and I explained. She looked at the chicken on her plate in disgust and said "I don't want to eat a chicken!" I explained to her that it was okay to eat meat from chicken and other animals such as cows, pigs, fish etc.... I told her that we needed protein in our diet and meat was the easiest source for us to consume. She didn't care about any of that she just hated the idea of eating a dead chicken.
Death is a really hard concept for a small child to grasp. Even though I explained that the chicken was no longer alive and would never be alive again; she still asked if it could fly off her plate.
Drew was not bothered by any of this. He had little to add to the discussion; all he had to say was "Me eat chicken up!! Bite off head first!" Apparently he thought there might be a little life left in his, so to be sure it was dead he would try to find a head and bite it off; it was a little difficult considering we were eating breast strips.
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