One omnivore's dilemma
Jul. 19th, 2007 12:38 pmWhy is the great majority of grass-fed meat that is available beef? (Chorus: because cows eat grass!) I've never been much of a beef eating person, even when I ate meat for three meals a day. I just don't think it tastes all that good. Now that I'm considering expanding back into eating some meat (but only meat from animals raised on small farms) I'm looking at listings of grass-pastured meat farms and seeing mostly beef. I'm also seeing that most of the few farms listed that are in Massachusetts are in the distant wilds of the 413 area code (you know, farm country). This means in most cases well over an hours drive to get at these carcasses. No wonder it's so easy for most folks to get "pink in plastic" conventionally grown meat at the supermarket. All the shipping is done for them, and thanks to mass production and corn subsidies, it's actually cheaper!
Still, a nice drive in the country to get chicken from birds that pasture in a rolling floorless henhouse isn't a bad way to spend an afternoon.
It's still easier to call myself a vegetarian than to have to explain the way that I split hairs over meat-eating. I have friends who, if they sensed that I was giving an inch on the whole meat thing, would be all over me to gorge on factory farm (excuse me, "concentrated animal feeding operation") fried pork nibblin's.
Still, a nice drive in the country to get chicken from birds that pasture in a rolling floorless henhouse isn't a bad way to spend an afternoon.
It's still easier to call myself a vegetarian than to have to explain the way that I split hairs over meat-eating. I have friends who, if they sensed that I was giving an inch on the whole meat thing, would be all over me to gorge on factory farm (excuse me, "concentrated animal feeding operation") fried pork nibblin's.