Left to my own devices, folks, I'd probably go vegetarian; well mostly. I just like animals too much to go around whacking them. But, if you're not butchering your own meat, that means someone else has to. Sayin' "I didn't do it" while you stuff a pastrami-on-rye in your mug ain't exactly the moral high ground. Now maybe I'm doomed to a life of ambivalence about my place on the food chain (well, under me on the food chain - anything trying to eat me, and that includes mosquitoes, is going to meet its maker, no ambivalence there) but this young man, Andrew Plotsky, is making a good case for the role of meat in community supported agriculture.
Now for my vegan, Muslim and Jewish readers, pork butcherin' might not be your cup of tea. (stick with it for about 5 minutes to see how centralized meat packing destroyed independent farmers/quality meat/the butchering profession) For everyone else who doesn't know what part of a pig the "picnic" comes from, you'd better watch and learn.
On The Anatomy Of Thrift: Side Butchery from farmrun on Vimeo.
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