pick your pork carefully

I get frustrated trying to explain to people why J & I try and buy organic, local, sustainable...green. Because I can't pick just one reason why unless I boiled it down to:

1. It's just the right thing to do.

It is a simple answer lined with complexities that I will continue on with another day...

Industrial-produced meat is the topic fresh on my mind after reading an article from the Rolling Stone (see below for link). My interest took hold in an Animal Rights symposium in college. Now, I don't consider myself to be a lefty-whacko; I try and maintain balance in my views (I'm biased - I know.) But once I began to study and did eventually witness the "business" of meat production in modern America, I could no longer ignore the implications of buying cheap meat.

Click here to read an edgy Rolling Stone article on the Nation's largest pork producer, Smithfield Farms.