I did it! A whole week with no meat! It was tricky, I was tempted by chicken satay and crispy duck and all sorts of yummy goodness and good yummyness. However, my attitude remains unchanged and the fact is I LOVE meat, but I am just not prepared to endorse mass production, ill treatment and extensive processing of my food. Because of this I am now a pescetarian – an eater of fish and seafood but no meat, however, because I don’t object to eating meat, just it’s treatment and processing, I have included a get out clause for eating the tasty goodness of flesh. I will only eat meat that has come from a local source and is organically produced. As you can see, this is not a ‘meat is murder’ type of diet, but a ‘commercial production of animal flesh is environmentally damaging and degrades the respect that meat and its production chain deserve’ type thing.
So there! Health win, local farmer win, planet win…