I agree, most of us “live” pretty far away from our food sources and coming to face to face with it can be challenging. A story I often tell about this happened to me in Morocco. People kept telling me that I should get really fresh chicken, not chickens that had been slaughtered and dressed. Like the ones back home. So one day I walked up to a different vendor in the market, one who sold live chickens. He’d kill them for you, if you preferred (I did!). I pointed out two chickens I thought looked good and the seller grabbed them, threw them on a plastic tub, and weighed them, feathers and feet and all. At that moment, I caught the chickens’ beady little eyes looking at me and I basically said, “Forget it.” I headed straight to my usual vendor and bought two pre-slaughtered chickens, wuss that I was.