tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post5894153005017872943..comments2024-02-27T15:19:59.496-08:00Comments on Backyard Farming: The spiritual conversion of an omnivoreMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04169799115572882024noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post-88878497899416977922013-11-17T13:52:33.359-08:002013-11-17T13:52:33.359-08:00Hey Dale,
Thanks for this post. I too, have been t...Hey Dale,<br />Thanks for this post. I too, have been thinking a lot about why I eat meat and for me it comes down to food as medicine, and the belief that we cannot heal our bodies without animal products. <br /><br />Here is my post on this, but mostly, it addresses the judgement we all have of everyone else's diet:<br /><br />http://hcombcottage.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/why-i-eat-meat/<br /><br />Enjoy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post-41000496229950456412011-02-13T16:44:12.568-08:002011-02-13T16:44:12.568-08:00Hey there Dale. Kudos for your engagement in produ...Hey there Dale. Kudos for your engagement in producing your own grub! I also find making food (from scratch) to be a most excellent, and satisfying engagement. <br />Just wanted to make one point, though, regarding your ideological defense of eating meat, which is to say that 99.9% of meat produced in the US is produced in a way not at all like the way you do it. The animals have painful, unhealthy, unsanitary lives and are not killed mercifully. Standard practices in the meat production industries result in meat and dairy products containing feces (+ disease-carrying agents), antibiotics, and growth hormones. While I do enjoy the taste of meat, I consider these other "unseen" factors to be very important, so I strive to buy organic, local, free-range meat/dairy (watch out though, the labels are also very misleading) despite the much higher price tag, or no meat at all. Imagine a butcher saying "Ill give you a discount on your roast if you let me inject the pig with antibiotics, growth hormones, and if I can hold it in a pen only slightly larger than its body"... would you take the discount?chehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840930125004229518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post-86845479471218144232010-04-19T08:11:52.280-07:002010-04-19T08:11:52.280-07:00I plan on having chickens and rabbits that I will ...I plan on having chickens and rabbits that I will raise for food and slaughter. I think it will be very hard on me to actually end their lives. I might even cry a few tears. I want to do it though because I want my kids to appreciate where meat comes from and to appreciate the animals that give there lives for our sustenance.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04169799115572882024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post-47716875851078417512010-04-19T03:03:54.314-07:002010-04-19T03:03:54.314-07:00I also went through a phase of being completely ve...I also went through a phase of being completely vegetarian. Then one day I just had to have a steak. I still prefer vegetarian food but do eat meat as well. I have to cook two meals most days though as one of my kids refused to go back to meat. If I had to kill my own chooks though I could not do it. Unfortunately I get too attached and the last two were buried.karismahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02529919522651147308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post-78529000253592428602010-04-18T13:53:01.983-07:002010-04-18T13:53:01.983-07:00I've been fully entrenched with Disney and jus...I've been fully entrenched with Disney and just could not butcher an animal. Don't get me wrong. I'm barbecuing this afternoon. I just couldn't do the dirty deed.MAYBELLINEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09459481721591224275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post-78011356487731318202010-04-18T13:29:36.122-07:002010-04-18T13:29:36.122-07:00Thank you for this. It helps me move away from hu...Thank you for this. It helps me move away from humanizing animals, and giving them an improper place in my life. Your attitude reminds me of the little I have read of Native American beliefs - their efforts to come into harmony with the animals they use to sustain life. I am thankful for the role we all (human and animal)play in this wonderful life.Carolyn Johnson Christensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04071917270448622189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546718730043897500.post-17370409060913804652010-04-18T06:46:13.088-07:002010-04-18T06:46:13.088-07:00I could never give up meat. I love all of it. It...I could never give up meat. I love all of it. It's cool that you went a whole year as a vegetarian. You have more will power than I and you can certainly speak from experience now!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778054413371087920noreply@blogger.com