Today my husband and I sat down and watched Food Inc. If you haven’t seen this documentary please do! It’s out on DVD and it’s definitely a MUST SEE! It documents the process our food goes through to get to our table. I tell you, things aren’t looking to good. It showed what the animals are feed and the way they are kept in order to make them grow faster to keep up with the demand.
Our typical menu consist of Fish and Chicken. Almost forgot to mention Turkey every so often. So, we thought we were eating healthy since we don’t eat pork or beef. Ugh!!!! We’ve tried the Vegetarian diet but my family like meat. There are weeks when I’ll cook a couple vegetarian dishes but the tend to get bored. My first thought was…OK…what do we do now? Seems that there’s an alternative. They were saying shop our local farms. This is were they raise the animals to eat grass and they’re not injected with hormones. As well as our local farmers market. We’ve been doing good with planting our garden in the summer but in order to get the best results from it, we’re going to have to be more diligent. Trust me it’s a lot of work.
After watching the movie I got on my hany dandy notebook (lol) and began to do some research. Found a local farm here in Illinois that raise Beef, Pigs & Chickens. It is about 3 hrs away but they deliver to some of the nearby cities. I called and asked if the have a package to purchase chicken only & they do. This is going to be so new to us but I’m really excited to try it out. Last week I went grocery shopping so I’ll have to wait until we finish the food we purchased and we’ll begin this new way of life.
Have you seen the movie Food Inc. and do you shop your local markets for grocery?
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