Good, Clean, and Fair Food

Good, Clean, and Fair Food

Friday, March 25, 2011

If You Are What You Eat, Then I Am Not Sad

I USED to be a vegetarian. I put "used" in caps because once you see the following pictures you will be amazed by the transition I have made. I never really had an epiphany. It was more like a gradual realization. Not eating animals isn't going to stop animal cruelty. Some of the animals produced for food are not even treated cruelly. Animal cruelty will stop the day we start supporting small, local farms where the animals are treated with love and care, rather than the large, corporate CAFOS where animals are kept in sickening, appalling conditions that rip your heart right in half. If you don't believe me, research it.

Anyways, here they are. The photos from our November Turkey Processing (better late than never 'eh?)






If you can eat it, then you should be able to understand what it takes to get into your mouth. That's what we are all about here at Slow Food.

I leave you with one of my favorite quotes by Kahlil Gibran:

"When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven."

Go slow.
-Cate