So why feed meat to children then, if you can't even show them how their food was "made"?

Some people raise their own food, and once a hen stops laying she is Sunday night Roast Chicken. But that is not the impression I get here.

what?? what does jar jar have to do with this father murdering the family pet in front of his toddler son?

The OP's username is RIPJarJar. JarJar was probably the name of the poor chicken.

Yes. Chickens can be pets and provide eggs too. My late pediatrician had chickens as pets.

I grew up with chickens as pets. My parents liked how they didn't have to buy eggs for a couple of years.

Your kids sound boards

same!

You never actually got around to saying what the "problem" was. You just echoed "pet chicken" and then tried to engage in "internet-tough-guy-by-proxy" (the only thing sadder than the run-of-the-mill internet tough guy) using your children. Try again. What precisely is the "problem" in a child crying because their parent intentionally killed one of their pets in front of them?

Sounds like the father of the year...

Wow, your "kids" sound so hardcore. Good job raising them.

What in the heck are you talking about? Did we even read the same post? Where on earth did the OP say she could kill the chicken without a second thought? It's like you took the entire premise of the FML and included it as a hypothetical at the end of your post there like you'd read something that didn't just say exactly that.

"Our pet" implies that OP held affection toward the chicken. "Slaughtered" has negative connotations that imply she didn't approve of killing the chicken at all, not just him killing it in front of their child. Especially since it sounds like OP only found out what the husband had done AFTER he did it.

Every pet you've ever had was edible. They're all dinner animals. But I bet you'd have been upset if someone ate one of them.