Growing a Farmer blog post #2

This book was surely not one of my favorite books to read, I was frustrated with the authors actions and his stubbornness. I felt like the chapters dragged on about him describing tedious tasks that are not needed to be described in great detail. He would rant about how to correctly build a bee hive or how to plant an orchard. I wish the book had a more business perspective as appose to a boring narrative of a stubborn farmer who fails but yet arrogantly continues to go on with what he is doing. The book did get interesting when he talked about raising livestock, particularly when describing slaughtering and butchering. These topics were something that I was not aware of in detail, and as he mentioned I am one of those people who sees meat in the store but does not ponder how it got there. I was disgusted and fascinated at the same time when reading the chapters, I was intrigued by the idea of giving animals a place to roam and live happy lives, but what made me disgusted was the perceptive he had on farm animals. He looked at them as pieces of meat that are used to make money, he went off on how unintelligent and greedy all animals are (especially the pigs), which to me and from my experience is absolutely not true. He claimed in the book that he could get a piglet in march and basically feed it garbage and scraps and it would be ready for slaughter by Halloween. That statement in the book frankly made me upset, I wonder how this man has not sympathy or attachment for his farm animals, at least in my opinion let them live longer happier lives instead of keeping them trapped on one side of the farm. One thing that I will credit to Kurt although is his perseverance and drive, he surely not a quitter and a person who follows his passions. He certainly has had no straight road to reach his goals but through trial and error he makes an effort to learn a bit more on how to become whatever it is that he wants to.