We are buying a hog (okay maybe not a full one)

Posted on Nov 23 in Life in Evansville, personal storiesby TalinaPrint

Over the weekend we watched Food Inc. It was another documentary N put on our Netflix movie list that I hadn’t really heard of. It was a movie I am glad we saw though!

The movie opened my eyes to a number of other points and It made me super glad we are spending a little extra on a free-range, organic turkey this Thanksgiving! I am really not okay with mass “farming” as it’s pretty inhumane.

Animals live on top of each other in pins that aren’t big enough. The confined spaces are dirty, uncomfortable, heck some chickens never see the light of day! I also cringed at the pig catching and crushing contraption shown in the film.

Inhumane practices aside, industrialized food is also pretty unhealthy. So many farmers are doing anything they can to fatten up the animals or ramp up production so they can make more money. They aren’t thinking of the repercussions of these choices they’ve made.

Cows eating stuff like corn, other animal by-products and being kept in tiny pins in mountains of their own feces isn’t okay. Besides how healthy can that meat be after the poor cow lived so unhealthily?

I don’t want my food washed with ammonia or bleach, I don’t want my milk filled with hormones and I want the animals I eat to live in a healthy environment (the way nature intended them to).

Also, the movie opened my eyes to the fact that many of our foods are now the result of cloning!

In January 2008, the FDA approved the sale of meat and milk from cloned livestock, despite the fact that Congress voted twice in 2007 to delay FDA’s decision on cloned animals until additional safety and economic studies could be completed. Source

Stem cell research and designer babies are hot moral issues right? So why don’t more people know that they could be eating a clone and how can we say this is okay when we have done no studies on it?

The facts left me outraged and we are now slowly making the move away from industrialized, unhealthy and inhumane food. Our thanksgiving bird is the first step in what is going to be a slow process but it’s something we all NEED to be doing.

We already buy organic free range eggs and organic yogurt. We thought we were drinking hormone free milk but it turns out the Dean’s milk available here isn’t hormone free.

We’ve found a local farmer (Stonewall Farms) who sells organic, free range meats to consumers similar to how people obtained meat back in the day. You can buy a whole animal or just shares of it, when it is slaughter time you go to the processing plant to pick up your processed bulk meat and then you have what you need for months if not a year.

We will probably start out with a hog or just a half of a hog because we want to start out small. We’ll pay our deposit and save our money while we wait for the animal to grow and mature. When the times comes for slaughter we’ll have our large chunk of change to pay for the meat and we’ll walk away with 6 months to a years worth of free range, organic meat.

We just can’t stomach eating the slop that is available in the grocery store anymore!

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2 Comments

• Donna B. says:

  November 27, 2009 at 7:12 pm

  Oh, why not go whole hog!
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