Animal Suffering Matters for Meat Eaters, too.
This is a topic I don't really discuss much, but food is as important as any other subject, especially for a person (like me) that may cook everyday for others.
If you do cook everyday and you focus on whole foods, the subject of where you source your food will eventually come up.
For your family, you want what's best for them. You want only what's best for your children, especially.
But the idea that you want what's best for your family should extend to where you source your food from. It's an important subject to discuss.
Your food, and in this case the meat especially, should ideally be local, fresh food raised in ethical conditions.
Mass production of animals, of vegetables, of fruit, all of that is damaging.
But, I'm not talking about the environment here, I'm talking about something more important to the subject at hand.
It's damaging to your person what kind of meat you decide to put into your system.
If you source cheap meat, or from places that are less than ideal in how they raise their animals (dirty, overcrowded, can't go outside) it will reflect on your system, and your health will pay the cost.
Those animals in particular are raised in less than ideal conditions which means the ratio of nutrition is off from the start. They are not healthy, and not adequately cared for.
They are fed corn, soybeans, and food scraps that you will eventually eat if you eat those animals yourself.
This of course translates to your inflammation levels in your body, and your general mood, of course.
So yes, where you source your meat matters. Instead, opt into local meats raised in good, natural conditions. Game meat might be a better option too if you like to go hunting or know a hunter willing to sell.
Grocery store meat is less than favorable because it often comes from mass produced unhealthy animals.
It might even help to get local, fresh meat in terms of costs.
Find a farmer who sells meat, and you remove the middle man, or, the supermarkets cost.
But focus on special meats, and avoid cheap ones. It's better to eat good cuts even if it means eating less. Quality over quantity.
and keep in mind, that old saying that was drilled into our heads as children:
"you are what you eat"
There is truth in it.