I don’t think I could easily participate in one of these slaughtering/butchering classes. I’m a sissy. But I do think that if I am going to eat meat, it will be meat from outside of the factory process, locally sourced, personally slaughtered and butchered and more expensive. Since I can’t afford to eat much of that kind of meat — I eat less meat, and am happy with that.

I don’t know what the society wide fix is — but for my part I continue to eat meat it is simply becoming a smaller portion of my over-all diet, and eat sitting I consume smaller portions. So, eat it less often, less of it, and pay more for it — but I recognize the value to me, of paying more for this kind of meat, together with the value of learning how to eat more affordably, which means relying on more beans and whole grains and veggies.

Essentially, hoping not to be too repetitive — meat is cheap because of the factory farming system. So we eat it out of proportion to it’s actual cost, and have lost good sense of what it’s real value is.