Reply #45: One of the many ironic misconceptions.... [View All]

[AnneD]

when we lived on a farm....we ate more vegetables than anything else. Some of the best meals didn't have a speck of meat on the plate. That being said-when we had meat-we ate meat and didn't think twice about it. I have often said that if folks had to slaughter their own meat-less would be eaten. It did not cost us so much to eat meat. Chickens kept the garden free from bugs and ate veggies and some scraps mixed in with their feed. Hogs had scrapes. Cows, sheep and goats grazed and had some feed and scrapes. Now I might want to tell you-some of the scrapes were fruit from the fruit trees, the family table, the fields-nothing went to waste. And we swapped with neighbors. Only the current farm 'business model' is meat too expensive.