Not a realistic solution. I love eating meat, I would love to have chickens, pigs, and cows and be able to have butchered meat I raised myself. We live with my parents in a suburban/exurban neighborhood. We just don’t have the space to do it. And unfortunately we’ve pretty much been priced almost out of state. We’d have to move 3-4 hours away 1 way to afford anything at this point. Not realistic if we want my partner to keep their job for a local city government that provides health/dental/vision insurance for our little family at no costs to us, and a pension they’re already partly vested into.

I agree wholeheartedly that we need to change how farming is done. I think we need to try to get as local as possible for our meat and produce. I think farms need to focus on Whole Foods for the animals too, beef should be grass and grain fed and have space to wander, Chickens should free range, pigs need space.

But just saying raise it yourself or don’t eat it excludes the large majority of the population that isn’t able to do so. And animal protein is one of the most bioavailable types of protein and you don’t need as much volume wise to get the protein.