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This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.
At the time of writing this post I had no idea what I was going to be serving my family on Christmas day. Things are, and probably will be when you read this (which is the future for me), far more complicated than this sentence. Also my family and I are meat eaters...
Yep okay nice to see you. That was half the readers of the blog leaving in disgust because I eat meat. I have teath designed for eating meat and vegtables, a digestive system that is likewise attuned and I live in a culture that is set up this way. I'm just being "normal".
The problem is that I am, in leaving things so late, even less likely to obtain an ethically reared bird than I am a fresh one. So finding a fresh one is a big challenge and finding a free range, natural one is quite unlikely but as Dan Barber presents "A surprising parable of foie gras" you will see that ethical food is often the best, the most sustainable and so, frankly, the only sane choice.
This year I will attempt the impossible - subscribe so that you do not miss it.
I have to admit that as a vegan reader of your blog, I did find this post a little shocking. I actually have a very hard time reading about exploitation, personally. Just being honest, giving you a real response here. But I'll continue to read your blog.
However, you write, "I have teath designed for eating meat and vegtables, a digestive system that is likewise attuned and I live in a culture that is set up this way. I'm just being 'normal'." - and I feel the need to respond to that.
If you do some more reading I think you'll find that your teeth match those of herbivores. (Just like other herbivores, we have front teeth just right for crunching through vegetables, but unsuited for tearing through flesh - carnivores don't need knives, they have teeth that do the trick.) And your digestive system also matches that of herbivores. (It's long and alkaline, to allow for the slow digestion of plant matter, not short and acidic, designed for quickly passing dead flesh through the body before it rots.) And you live in a culture that drives SUVs, but that doesn't mean you drive an SUV, do you? If you lived in a society that practiced human slavery, would you buy a slave, and say "I'm just being normal"?
I'm not trying to force my ethics on you or make you feel bad or anything, but since you're concerned with morals, environmental sustainability, and ethics, I had to say my piece. Animal exploitation is just not good for the environment, workers, our bodies, or those who are just scraping by or starving while more affluent cultures funnel their resources and labor (and the resources and labor of the other cultures they exploit) into animals destined for slaughter. And it's certainly not good for the animals. Have you watched footage of animals being slaughtered? Even on a family farm, even at the hands of someone who "loves" them, slaughter can't be "humane." It's the taking of a life against someone's will. I don't know how that can be done ethically.
Feel free to delete this comment if you find it annoying, I won't be at all offended! I used to hate it when people posted things on my blog telling me I should eat animals, so I'm sure it's annoying the other way around, too. :)
I don't find your comment annoying. Quite the opposite. I like to be exposed to ideas that differ from my own. How else can I possibly test the validity of my opinions without other opinions to test them against.
If all the people that read what I have to sy agreed with me all the time I'd be ether very rich or very boring (or both). Feel free to differ with me when-ever you like.
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However, you write, "I have teath designed for eating meat and vegtables, a digestive system that is likewise attuned and I live in a culture that is set up this way. I'm just being 'normal'." - and I feel the need to respond to that.
If you do some more reading I think you'll find that your teeth match those of herbivores. (Just like other herbivores, we have front teeth just right for crunching through vegetables, but unsuited for tearing through flesh - carnivores don't need knives, they have teeth that do the trick.) And your digestive system also matches that of herbivores. (It's long and alkaline, to allow for the slow digestion of plant matter, not short and acidic, designed for quickly passing dead flesh through the body before it rots.) And you live in a culture that drives SUVs, but that doesn't mean you drive an SUV, do you? If you lived in a society that practiced human slavery, would you buy a slave, and say "I'm just being normal"?
I'm not trying to force my ethics on you or make you feel bad or anything, but since you're concerned with morals, environmental sustainability, and ethics, I had to say my piece. Animal exploitation is just not good for the environment, workers, our bodies, or those who are just scraping by or starving while more affluent cultures funnel their resources and labor (and the resources and labor of the other cultures they exploit) into animals destined for slaughter. And it's certainly not good for the animals. Have you watched footage of animals being slaughtered? Even on a family farm, even at the hands of someone who "loves" them, slaughter can't be "humane." It's the taking of a life against someone's will. I don't know how that can be done ethically.
Feel free to delete this comment if you find it annoying, I won't be at all offended! I used to hate it when people posted things on my blog telling me I should eat animals, so I'm sure it's annoying the other way around, too. :)