Eating Meat for the first time in 80+ days

Today is our 1 year wedding anniversary. We decided to celebrate by breaking an almost three month fast from meat. The fast came about from Josie talking to us about the way animals are treated in factory operations. Additionally, we have known for a long time that eating meat is both hard on the body and hard on the environment. Our decision was that we would no longer eat meat that came from a factory. The end result was we stopped eating meat altogether.
In the meantime, we looked at our rabbits in a different way. With one surprise litter we thought about the plausibility of breeding our pets and using their offspring as a food source. That seems to make sense. We make a contract with our animals to treat them humanely and by the time they are ready to be harvested they are harvested in a way that is more humane than anything that would be found in a commercial slaughterhouse. We haven’t started breeding our rabbits yet; but that is in the near future. We also have plans to allow our duck to breed once we determine it’s sex. We will acquire a combination of hens to go with a drake so we can raise duck as well. I have only ever killed and gutted a fish. This is going to be a new and radical experience. I think it is an experience that will make the food we eat more real. It will also grow our appreciation for food and gratitude for the animal.
When we ate meat this weekend we ate at places that have food values that are similar to ours; Laurelhurst Market and Little Big Burger. We would highly recommend both. We ate bone marrow and pate’ – things we never imagined trying before. Right now we are getting ready to eat bacon from the butcher shop at Laurelhurst. Tomorrow we will be back to a meat free life. I can’t tell you how different meat tastes when you allow yourself to go without and then you eat it as a delicacy. I can’t wait to harvest our own meat. You will know when we do.