Comments on: Ethical meat? http://cutecheapstuff.com/2009/11/10/ethical-meat/ Stuff you might like too Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:49:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cutecheapstuff http://cutecheapstuff.com/2009/11/10/ethical-meat/#comment-167 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:17:47 +0000 http://cutecheapstuff.wordpress.com/?p=654#comment-167 Thanks for those links!
And that’s a good point about treatment of workers.

]]> By: erniebufflo http://cutecheapstuff.com/2009/11/10/ethical-meat/#comment-166 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:17:17 +0000 http://cutecheapstuff.wordpress.com/?p=654#comment-166 I recently committed to only buying ethical meat. Not just because of the treatment of animals, but because of the treatment of workers in meat processing plants. It’s very nearly slavery the way they bus in undocumented workers, keep them compliant by threatening to report them to INS, work them under unsafe conditions (I could tell you how many Mexican immigrants my dad has had to treat in the ERs in AR who work for Tyson and Purdue), pay them very very little, and give them no rights. It really really appalls me such that I can’t buy the meat anymore. Not to mention the environmental cost of CAFOs (feed lots) and slaughterhouses, in terms of waste and emissions.

So far I have not had to buy any meat, as we’ve been mostly vegetarian, with only bacon (we can get “certified humane” bacon at the local grocery store) and organic free range chicken broth rounding out our meals. This Eat Well Guide is how I found a local butcher that sells sustainable/ethical meat, so you might check it out. Also, if podunk Charleston SC offers meat CSAs (weekly deliveries of meat from local farms), I’m sure hippie mecca Seattle has them. I’m betting that the amount of meat you need to eat weekly in order to get your iron requirement isn’t so much as to make it cost prohibitive if you went veggie on other days.

Some searching on one of my favorite sites yielded info about 2 meat CSAs in the Seattle area.

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