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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

Light a Good Fire

As I build fire and tend fire for smoked charcuterie, I've been musing on the building and tending of culture, which is, I feel, perhaps the greatest calling of our particular moment.

Food For Thought, Food, Charcuterie, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 6, 2020#ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #culture, #charcuterie, #smokedfoods, #smokingmeat, #smokedmeat, #onlinecourse, #realfood, #fire, #fall, #autumn Comment

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