Sustainable is all well and good but the realities are that profitable drives sustainable, not the other way around. The best example of this are people who claim they are all for sustainable but shop at sams club for the cryovac stuff. They do that because of cost.
I grew up around farms and farming, my mother can tell stories about when they got electricity on the farm. The biggest lesson I learned from that was where food comes from and how it gets to the kitchen. That lesson has been lost or turned into something else for too many people. I think because of the easy replacement of the food, the store has lots more, waste is so much easier.
Whether you do your own butchering or buy it from a store, I believe that we as consumers of that product need to use it wisely. We can drive the profitable sustainable agriculture with the choices we make. If you don't know your farmers get to know a butcher who does!
George |