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Meet Your Meat

Series: Milk and Honey
From: This Land Press
Length: 00:04:52

A little over a year ago, three friends confronted their meat eating ways by participating in a field dressing class put on by Women in the Outdoors. Spring Houghton, Apollonia Pina and Holly Clay-Buck recount the day they gutted, skinned and ate the first animal they had ever helped kill. Read the full description.

Goats_online_small A little over a year ago, three friends confronted their meat eating ways by participating in a field dressing class put on by Women in the Outdoors. Spring Houghton, Apollonia Pina and Holly Clay-Buck recount the day they gutted, skinned and ate the first animal they had ever helped kill. 

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A little over a year ago, three friends confronted their meat eating ways by participating in a field dressing class put on by Women in the Outdoors. Spring Houghton, Apollonia Pina and Holly Clay-Buck recount the day they gutted, skinned and ate the first animal they had ever helped kill. 

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