Let's talk about healthy nutrition

[Peregrinus]

Hey Eddie, when can I come to your place for supper? You have the right ideas brother.

I'm a vegetarian, but not because I don't like meat. I just won't eat the meat of animals that have suffered, which is cattle and chickens and... pretty well anything that one buys in a store nowadays. I am not against eating wild game, animals that have lived in the glory of nature and have enjoyed their existence.

I've worked cattle feedlot on horseback, and seen the many needles of God knows what that they all get. It wasn't as bad as many feedlots nowadays, where the cattle never see a pasture. The cattle I worked with at least got that.

I've picked chickens by hand to put them on the trucks. As a kid that was a quick way to make money, usually about 23 to 26 bucks for a few hours work. In those days it was 10,000 or so chickens in a barn, with feeders/waterers in several locations on the floor, so they weren't stacked and they were white. It was still no life for an animal though, so close to each other they could barely turn around, and they never got to spend a second outside in the sunshine and never tasted a bug or a blade of grass in their life.

I see they sell some products that they call 'free-run", which I suspect isn't the same as free range to be sure.

I've only a month ago become a veggie again, and am learning to live with it. I've tried before, but didn't know what to eat, so I craved... this time so far so good. I get physically ill thinking about ingesting (concentration camp) meat, so that keeps the cravings away.

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. ~ Alexandra Paul