Wow, week 5 already? Before I share my thoughts, I’ll let you know who this week’s winners, chosen by random.org, are.
For the Fresh from the Farm Book: Benita, who writes “We make it our business to eat the best we can, farmers markets, CSA, fresh food. We live in NY and well we’d love to read this book.” How cool is that?
The winner of the Real Food Ingredient Guide was Amy @ Homestead Revival.
Come on people, we need more participation! Please don’t be shy. You don’t need to write anything profound – just honest. And you don’t need a blog of your own, just an email address 🙂
So far over the course of this series I’m being convicted of two things:
- I need to be more careful when I go out to eat. I just keep thinking about the farm workers and CAFOs whenever I eat meat in a restaurant, which I try to avoid but I tend to go out with extended family or coworkers, who don’t quite understand why I am searching the menu hoping to find something vegetarian. And, confession time–I do hit the drive thru when I’m on road trips for work. I need to get better at packing my own food or stopping at a grocery store.
- I need to share more meals. Our flooring project is almost finished, so hopefully we’ll have our house put back together soon.
How about you? Any changes or revelations?
I have also recently been convicted of eating meat at restaurants! I can’t hardly bring myself to buy in the grocery store, why would I eat it out when I have NO idea where it came from? Wanting what I want, I suppose.
Ah, fast food (or as I like to call it, “The Evil Empire”). Not only is fast food the worst for out health, it’s also the worst for the animals and the environment. The fast food craze (starting around WWI) is what kicked off this industrialized food system & CAFOs.
Have you ever watched (or read) Fast Food Nation? It’s really eye-opening. It starts with a fast food chain finding animal feces in the hamburger meat (true story) then goes into how the animals are slaughtered & how the workers are mistreated. Here’s my post related to that, if you’re interested: http://www.powered-by-produce.com/2009/06/10/whats-really-in-your-hamburger/
I’m so glad you’re thinking about where your meat comes from. There really is a HUGE difference between factory farmed and natural, humanely raised meat.
We have been trying to limit the meat that we buy to local, sustainably raised products, usually bought at the Farmer’s Market. But I admit I still buy a few products at the grocery store that I can’t find at the farmer’s market. It is not ideal, and usually makes me feel like I am being inconsistant. I think we are moving further towards changing our eating habits, but it does feel overwhelming and hard sometimes.