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On Fat

If you’ve watched a pig ambling through a field, and seen it stop, and snuff the earth, then you know what I am talking about. Stop, snuff about you, as if to thoroughly ask: What is the offering? How will the body take it on?

Food For Thought, Land, Charcuterie, Food, Meat, ButcheryMeredith LeighOctober 27, 2020#fat, #goodfat, #storedbounty, #ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #confit, #rillettes, #terrine, #lardo, #foodforthought Comment

Meat School Episode 2: Buying Meat In Community

Taking back the meat supply.

Butchery, Food For Thought, Meat, FoodMeredith LeighMay 8, 2020#meat, #ethicalmeat, #communityfood, #community, #diy, #butchery, #agricultureComment

Meat School Episode 1: Will COVID Wake us up to Ethical Meat?

Food For Thought, Land, Meat, Food, Butchery, RecipesMeredith LeighApril 28, 2020#ethicalmeat, #agriculture, #realfood, #foodsystems, #localmeat, #regionalfoodComment

You are the Imaginative Ones. You are the Hope. The Revolutionaries.

That you are ignored is the surest sign that you're revolting…

Butchery, Charcuterie, Food, Food For Thought, Land, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 7, 2019#revolution, #ethicalmeat, #agriculture, #resilience, #holism, #realfood, #communityfood, #unlearning, #vision Comment

Cooking is the New Communism

on the smartness of millennials, truth-telling with yourself, aging, and finding joy in the struggle.

Top 5 Reasons to Cure Your Own Meat

From budget to wonderment, here are the Top 5 reasons to cure your own meat.

Butchery, Microbiology, Food For Thought, Meat, CharcuterieMeredith LeighDecember 5, 2017#curedmeat, #charcuterie, #purecharcuterie, #ethicalmeat, #diy, #homecured, #purecure, #sausage, #sausagemaking, #salami, #salumi, #wholeanimal Comments

Vegan Bullying and the New World

I have been avoiding militant vegan rhetoric for a decade or more. As of today, that has changed.

Butchery, Food, Food For Thought, MeatMeredith LeighNovember 14, 2016#ethicalmeathandbook, #ethicalmeat, #cyclesoflife, #stopveganbullying, #wildabundance, #sustainability, #diversity, #agriculture, #diet, #positivechange, #unity, #positivity, #change

Why I Use the Words "Ethical" and "Meat" Together... and What that Means

So, what is Ethical Meat? Is it just two words slapped together to make people uncomfortable? Do I expect people to analyze the controversy of these two words together, using the same thinking we’ve used for far too long? I’d like to think I’m a bit deeper than that. That we all are. So, here goes.

Meat, Food For Thought, Food, ButcheryMeredith LeighApril 21, 2016#meat, #ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #butchery, #butcherbook, #omivore, #diet

Do Something Unrealistic

There is no such thing as small change. #beuseful

Meat, Food, Butchery, Food For ThoughtMeredith LeighNovember 23, 2015#meat, #slowmeat, #change, #charcuterie, #butchery, #butcherbook, #wholeanimal, #food, #foodforthoughtComment