Meat

There is something immensely satisfying about buying fresh meat. Choosing the fresh cut of your choice, to bringing it home and making something delicious makes me happy. I like meat. I could never be a vegetarian. The amount of energy and sustenance I gain from a meat filled meal is noticeable to me. Plus I just like the taste. Unfortunately, I rarely contemplate the actions that go into providing me with the meat I so readily devour. As a culture, we are completely removed from the processes that provide us the food. Besides a small few, none of us have ever slaughtered a cow, or defeathered a chicken.

It makes it almost impossible to understand the implications of our actions when we are so far removed from how it is created. However, at my cabin food is provided very differently. Often, we will buy meat from the farm down the road. We buy it because it has good meat, and because we like the people. However, if the farm was a large corporate farm where the animals were treated poorly, as a commodity rather than an actual living creature, we would probably not buy food from them. It would seem unethical. The reason why we choose the smaller farm is because we were able to see first hand where and how the meat was brought to us. Unfortunately, most meat does from large corporate farms, but since I am so far removed from it, I don't think about the ethics.