Saturday, December 19, 2009  losing my religion  I'm hitting a
point in my life as a small-scale producer that makes me
question certain things. Since I started raising my own
vegetables, eggs, baked-goods, and learning to source my dairy
closer to home—I realized there is another abundant source of
healthy natural food I've been ignoring: meat.  I've been a
vegetarian for nearly a decade. I became one because it seemed
like the logical and responsible personal choice after learning
about the factory farm system. I didn't want to be a part of
that, so I stopped eating all meat altogether. Honestly, I never
missed it. Some people go vegetarian and start crumbling at the
knees at the smell of sizzling bacon, but not me. Sure, I get a
little nostalgic, but never had another bite after that choice
was made. This made so much sense to me because all the meat in
our stores was shipped from Confined Animal Feeding Operations
(CAFOs) but now that I'm living in the rural Northeast, and have
so much local, grass-fed me