Organic meat boxes
Apr. 18th, 2008 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynI'm being mildly amused to discover that Sheepdrove Farm (which is a lovely traditional organic farm, about two miles from where my father lives) do organic meat boxes. So, it's like an organic veg box, but containing ethically reared, tasty lovely meat.
I think I quite like the idea. I've always been firmly of the opinion that I have no issues with eating meat at all. Animals eat other animals. I do not whinge about those dastardly lions and their antelope snaffling ways. Neither do I think I feel very guilty about my own choice to eat cows, or sheep or anything else.* However, I do have an issue with the industrialisation of meat production. It's therefore quite nice to know that it is possible to get meat which has been ethically and traditionally reared, wherever you are. And because it is local to my family, I know it is a good and ethical place and is also very environmentally friendly.
Sadly, my lack of a proper freezer probably means that I can't afford to spend £50 on an entire cow buttock (although it does remind me of the year my grandfather gave my parents a cow. A dead cow. Cut up into lots of pieces. We stuck it in our gargantuan freezer in the outhouse and that provided us with our meat for about a year), but I'm still relatively glad it's all there.
*Other people, of course, must make the ethical choices which are right for them.
I think I quite like the idea. I've always been firmly of the opinion that I have no issues with eating meat at all. Animals eat other animals. I do not whinge about those dastardly lions and their antelope snaffling ways. Neither do I think I feel very guilty about my own choice to eat cows, or sheep or anything else.* However, I do have an issue with the industrialisation of meat production. It's therefore quite nice to know that it is possible to get meat which has been ethically and traditionally reared, wherever you are. And because it is local to my family, I know it is a good and ethical place and is also very environmentally friendly.
Sadly, my lack of a proper freezer probably means that I can't afford to spend £50 on an entire cow buttock (although it does remind me of the year my grandfather gave my parents a cow. A dead cow. Cut up into lots of pieces. We stuck it in our gargantuan freezer in the outhouse and that provided us with our meat for about a year), but I'm still relatively glad it's all there.
*Other people, of course, must make the ethical choices which are right for them.
