Comments on: Preparing for September http://blog.seacoasteatlocal.org/2007/08/28/preparing-for-september/ think globally, eat locally Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:40:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Sara Zoe http://blog.seacoasteatlocal.org/2007/08/28/preparing-for-september/#comment-148 Sara Zoe Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:27:45 +0000 http://blog.seacoasteatlocal.org/2007/08/28/preparing-for-september/#comment-148 I used to be a vegetarian because of environmental reasons but came back to meat eating after working on a small organic family farm in MN - I realized that animals could have a a good life, dignified death, and not be a cause of environmental destruction, which isn't true about commercially raised meat. Eating locally is critical to eating ethical meat - it's simply too hard to know the farming practices of far-away farms. Much easier to know the ins and outs if you can talk to the farmer at the market or pick up the meat from the farm itself. In VT there is a limited amount of soybeans being grown - maybe we can track some down! I used to be a vegetarian because of environmental reasons but came back to meat eating after working on a small organic family farm in MN - I realized that animals could have a a good life, dignified death, and not be a cause of environmental destruction, which isn’t true about commercially raised meat. Eating locally is critical to eating ethical meat - it’s simply too hard to know the farming practices of far-away farms. Much easier to know the ins and outs if you can talk to the farmer at the market or pick up the meat from the farm itself.

In VT there is a limited amount of soybeans being grown - maybe we can track some down!

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