Em, honey, does that mean I won't be banished for being a face-eater? I know where meat comes from, and I don't mean a supermarket. I buy from local men that tell me how the animals have been raised, and how they're handled. And i just trust these guys. Getting that mad cow border closure sure did mess up the economics of the beef trade (over half our production used to be exported to the US), but now the smaller farmers are banding together to produce and market local/regional and value-added meat co-ops. It's a silver lining in the whole mess. People/families who have been in the busy for two hundred years going bankrupt.....I really think that a few bad operators have just made everybody look bad. If tofu tasted like a steak, I'd make the switch.....but I dunno. Unless, that is, tofu butt tastes like rump roast.....then we're talking. I just don't feel okay if I stop eating meat.

Rambling thoughts of a sleepy brain. Good night.

Lar