So, cooking that much pork after not eating meat for a month was interesting. I learned that whole foods rolled out a humane meat rating system, and that gave me a little peace. The meat I bought was a 3. I would have paid as much as I had to in order to buy a step 4 or 5 but this option was not available to me and I was short on time.
While I was reading this book and planning a menu I really couldn't figure out which opinion I take on this whole thing. Am I a vegetarian? No. Do I really enjoy meat enough to join a club for it, purchase quarters of animals and freeze them in the basement? No, not really. Can I live without it? Yes. Do I want to? ...eh? I don't know. sure. Will I miss it? No. But I still don't want to fully commit to anything and start calling myself a vegetarian. I don't want a label.
I am still feeling out this entire thing and figuring out what I can live without. This is a dietary decision as well as a social one. I admit that I enjoy the convenience and simplicity of being an omnivore. I don't think much about what I'm eating when I am eating alone but when I make meals for others or when I eat with people it becomes a larger issue of what to feed and what to say. I think a dialogue about where our food comes from and where it was before it was on the table is an important one. I think people have become willfully ignorant about it because we know it is wrong but we don't know how to change it.
