click to enlarge Luke Awtry A freshly slaughtered meat bird at New Village Farm Chicken slaughter features vividly among Michaela Ryan's earliest memories. The founder-owner of New Village Farm in Shelburne grew up on a farm in southern Québec. She was 3 years old when her father killed a meat bird, and it escaped his grasp to become the proverbial chicken running around with its head cut off. "A headless running bird is one of my very first memories," Ryan, 52, said. "It was definitely traumatic.

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