Isn't it a bit disturbing that Rolf is a farmer boy with

no?

Nah, that's just farm life.

>>92516335
The named ones might just be the ones he keeps around for breeding. My grandmother used to do that.

>>92516335
not even a little.

That's literally the opposite of strange.

Farmers understand the relationship between humans and animals possibly more than anybody.

And the named pig is likely more of a pet (very common on farms because pigs are highly intelligent animals on par with dogs) and the named goat is a source of milk, not meat.

uh
what
no

>>92516335
Wilfried and Vector are problably his pets, so not really destinated to become food.

I think it's good to know the name of the animal you're eating, and to have some kind of connection to it and its well-being. It makes the animal's destiny seem somewhat less cruel

>>92516335
It's very common that animals on a farm has names, OP.

>>92518093
Can confirm. I raise chickens and I ensure that any roosters (and sometimes hens if I get an overflow of them) I butcher get a quick, relatively painless death.

>>92516335
No, farmers do that. It's their fucking livelyhood.

Classic farmers would do farming because it's a job you can live off of even without outsider intervention, and you can eat a variety of stuff. Whatever plants you can grow, and whatever animals you can raise. Some farmers named animals to keep track of which one is which, for example you name the egg-laying chickens because "Rudy has trouble laying eggs" is easier to remember consistently than "that one with the brown spot on it's belly has trouble laying eggs".