Just the other day, I wrote about how to talk to restaurants about their meat sources. I wanted to expand just a bit on my thinking and address some comments I’ve heard on Twitter regarding this post.

I am a big fan of local food and of local businesses. If a restaurant doesn’t source their meat from an ethical source, but they do a lot of other positive things for the community, I’m still going to support them, I’m just not going to eat meat there. For example, there’s one restaurant in the University District that sent me [...]

I make no secret of the fact that Food, Inc. affected me. Even though I’ve read the Omnivore’s Dilemma, and am making my way through Organic, Inc., In Defense of Food, and Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, seeing the images in the film really drove the point home. I do not want to eat CAFO meat. 

But is that really practical? After all, we can’t cook every night. Even though we both have jobs, we can’t afford to have takeout night be from  Tilth. It likely isn’t feasible right now for us to totally and completely eliminate CAFO meat from our [...]