Connecting to your meat

Want to know how to connect back to the meat you're eating and why we, as small scale farmers feel okay about the fact that we are killing our animals to eat - let's talk about it 👇🏻

First off - there's no such thing as a deathless diet, I've talked about this a lot on here so let's move onto my next point.

Two - because we honour the animal by making sure that we use the entire part of the animal before killing the next one (for our own personal consumption).

For example, we get the cow hides back when they are sent to slaughter instead of allowing them to be sent as waste (we have hopes to one day make blankets and such with them).

And another example is looking at what an animal can actually give you - i.e. one cow will give you two prime rib roasts on average. So if we're eating more than two prime rib roasts in a season then we know that our consumption is causing the death of more than one cow.

Flank steaks have started to become very popular lately, which is great because it used to be the steak no one wanted AND at the same time, one cow produces one flank steak. That's it.

So if you're buying 6 flank steaks, 6 animals died to feed you. Instead of utilizing the entire cow before moving onto another one.

Utilizing the entire animal, as much as you can to your capacity, is how you honour that animal. This is how indigenous practices started and how MANY cultures around the world still eat their food. As a society, we've become picky with our cuts of meat but that doesn't change the fact that there is still the rest of the animal available and throwing it away or forgetting about it shouldn't be the go to option.

I challenge you to try a cut you're not used to, learn how to eat and use more than just your regular - we recently had beef heart stew, the kids ate it up and so did we.

Honouring an animal that died for us to eat looks like preventing as many food scraps from that animal as possible, utilizing every last bit and being grateful the entire way through.