/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14409688
Wow I didn't know that was required by law in order to get meat you had to raise it in squalid, overcrowded conditions. I guess that makes the meat taste better.

You can get pretty high quality meat in abundance relatively inexpensively if you buy wholesale or don't live in urban hell and you can raise an animal yourself. Do you really think all the cute pictures of happy, robust livestock on clean pasture basking in the sunshine ONLY come from farm sanctuaries?

>>14367394
Where is it written in the lawbooks that livestock has to be raised in shitty conditions?
Does pic related look shitty?
I mean, I'm sure you've seen pictures and videos of livestock animals living clean, beautiful lives and are clearly expressing joy. Do you think those are ALL shot at farm sanctuaries?
Yes, animals are abused. Yes, livestock is abused. But you don't have to support feedlot beef or cafo chicken or pork. You can go out, meet farmers, go tour their facilities, ask questions, and if they meet your standards of ethics you can support them.

Farms are very much like fingerprints, as much as oil baron oligarchs, trillionares and Monsanto want to change that, this is how it's always been. You can't buy ethics at a supermarket. You just can't.

>>14335196
I cant wait to raise my own heritage hog for meat. I'm gonna raise them really well on the best diet and life I can possibly provide, I have tons of land and wooded area for shade, they will help heal my land by providing fertilizer and natural land disturbance and eating all my food scraps. It will live under blue skies and on green grass, always moving.

Then I will kill it with my own hands as quickly as possible. A death only a human, the merciful apex predator, can provide. Only then when it is no longer alive will it finally provide for me the way I did for it. I will butcher it and get to know what comes from where in person. I will prepare it's flesh carefully and lovingly. I will render its lard and suet and it will just keep giving and giving until there is nothing left but dry bonemeal which I will return to the Earth, from which we all come.

I love animals~<3

>>14206096
Hey, it's like you said several times before, you don't care.

>>13827576
for now Im taking shelter in small markets. Supermarkets were, are, and always will be the plague. I went to a small market and there were like 5 people in the whole store, usually less, and they were fully stocked and the same damn price as the supermarket.

Ultimately instead of hunting I'm gonna have livestock. If you raise them right you will have the best meat in your entire life.

>>13810656
I'm sorry is that lard in their cart? Because all I see is sugar.

Lard master race.

>>13803995
Sorry 1 million lbs of cow, so maybe 500,000 lbs of beef?

>>13776993
>>13777063

Honestly I totally get where you are coming from. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place. You don't want to support industrial farming that prioritizes the quantity and efficiency of the animals to make money over the quality and welfare of their lives and deaths.

But even though this will make the vegans seethe, even Ghandi ultimately came to the heavy hearted realization that man cannot live without animals and animal products.

I also don't want to support bad animal husbandry, and the lack of food sovereignty in modern society makes it difficult for your typical consumer to really eat in a way that can truly align with their individual code of ethics and environmentalism.

It doesn't even matter if you are vegan, you are still contributing to massive amounts of suffering and environmental degeneration without actually being able to see the true volume of damage being done.

The only solution I could come up with was not an easy one. People need to abandon all forms of industrial globalized consumerism as much as possible and practicable and replace that consumerism with self sustainability and self production.

For me, I am lucky to have someone who is willing to let me manage some of their farmland to grow crops and produce food using my proposed regenerative agricultural model. Based on other regenerative farms this seems to be a cost effective and an all around ethical method to raising both plants and animals for food.

Leaving in a few weeks, have been reading up on regenerative agriculture. I would strongly recommend looking up Gabe Brown (currently reading his book Dirt to Soil) and Joel Salatin.

>>13758154
News flash: you don't actually have to torture a pig before eating it. You can actually raise it on pasture in the woods from birth to death and it will still turn into delicious ham and bacon