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Originally Posted by griffonwing
There I agree with you. There is a way around it.
Hunting Season!
Get a license, go out, and help control the wild animal population. Take the meat to a processing station and have sausage, ground chuck, steaks, etc.. made from them.
I think each license allows a certain number of deer, trurkey, etc.. Bag your limit, process them, and you've got meat to last you months. And the more hunters in the household, the more meat you'll get.
PLUS - you will not be supporting the slaughter houses and meat-packing plants that turn your stomach with the ill-treatments.
You grow your own veggies and fruits in your garden, why not kill your own meat? Raise chickens for eggs, goats for milk. Actually, I hear that milking goats (goats bred for milking) make very good eating as well.
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This response will probably surprise people.... If I were going to eat meat, I would hunt. I have no objection to responsible hunters who eat what they kill. I'd prefer not to, but I would if I had to. Before I became a vegetarian I ate both duck and venison hunted by an uncle. I knew exactly what I was eating.
We've considered keeping goats. (I'm quite fond of goat cheese.) The Muffin Man (my husband) raised chickens as a kid and doesn't want to do it again. He likes chickens, but had a hard time eating the eggs after a while, and couldn't eat the young roosters when they were slaughtered at all.
Goats also grow an undercoat that can be spun into quite nice yarn.
But I think I should finish my doctorate before taking on any more responsibilities....