4.06.2009

hunting, maybe not so bad

This is, for me, a huge policy shift. I've decided that hunting, which I have loathed without hesitation all my life, may be a good thing.

As I see it, there are four choices.

  1. Don't eat meat.
  2. Eat meat that is part of the industrial food chain with all the drugs, chemicals, fuel-costs, and animal misery that that involves.
  3. Eat meat that is part of the natural food chain that has a healthy diet and 100% outdoor access and a pretty good life until the bullet arrives.
  4. Eat meat that I raise here on my own land where I can make sane choices about what the animal eats and how it lives before it gets into my freezer.
Since I'm not going to do #1, options #3 or #4 seem like the only responsible options.
~Suzanne


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Here I chatter about books, parenting, election 2008, recipes, teaching college writing, and the adventures of getting settled in with our two freshly (Fall 06) adopted school-age children from Russia. This blog is chapter two; chapter one is posted at Jamie & Suzanne go to Russia. I live in the City of Subdued Excitement, Cascadia, Land of the Free.

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