Gracie's Realization

This morning I was getting a head start on dinner with Grace. I was putting a big piece of red meat in the crock pot and this is how the conversation went:
Grace: "Mom, what is that?"
Me: "It is meat from a cow. We are having it for dinner tonight."
Grace: "Oh, it is going to hurt that animal when it cooks."
Me: "No, the animal is already dead. It doesn't feel it."
Grace: "Why did they kill that animal?"
Me: "Well, God made animals so we can eat. That is just the cycle of life."
Grace: "That is not good!" The cowboys shouldn't kill anymore animals so we can eat. We shouldn't kill things."

I just had to post this. It made me laugh! She is putting it together that we eat the cute little cows that graze in the pasture.
Now let's see how she does eating the "cow that cowboys kill" tonight.