There's another pack of sausages and another bag of ground beef not pictured because I couldn't get them to fit nicely in the picture. Chris made some pasta and sausage today for lunch, but I was super hungry and didn't think to take a picture until it was too late. I'm still not sure what we plan to do with all of it. Mostly, I just wanted to get a good supply for us, so if we want to cook something on a whim, we'll have meat that I approve of in the house.
I doubt I'll be doing much of the cooking anyway. I'm not a stranger to cooking meat, but I haven't done it a lot. I stopped eating meat in college and didn't start again until I started dating Chris, so the part of my life when I cooked entirely for myself was spent cooking vegetarian dishes. Even simple things like searing a steak or grilling a chicken confound me. (I can grill some mean tofu though, and talk to me about the quinoa tostadas I love).
I just got through a chapter in The Omnivore's Dilemma about the ethics of eating meat. That's always been a tricky subject for me -- so much so that I bowed out entirely for several years. But honestly, eating humanely handled meat takes a lot of my former objections out of the picture. I used to rattle off a list of reasons for not eating meat, when people asked me why (because people always ask you why) -- concern for my health, disdain for the meat industry, worries about the animals' welfare. I'm still a little uncomfortable with killing animals to eat them, but I can live with it now, as long as I know where my food is coming from. I really don't want another $ of mine to go towards industrial meat production. I'd hate for that system to get the mistaken idea that I support or approve of it. Because I don't. Not one bit. Never have. I just didn't realize how easy it was to opt out.
I'll try to be better about posting pictures when we cook with some of this stuff. Also, I am going to take lots of pictures of the Happy Cows tomorrow! I have a busy weekend ahead of me.
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