Saturday, November 13, 2010

Vacation in Review, Athens Meat Market


5 years ago when Spenser and I went to Athens ... I HAD to take my son here.

Why do you ask?


Well as Americans we are so distant from our food, that we forget that an animal gave it's life for us.

I wanted him to know that his food was once a life.


The way that we treat our animals for food in the United States is awful.  Feed lots are awful. We should at least be willing to give the animals that feed us a decent life while they are growing for our dinner plate.


I've made the pictures small so not to shock anyone.  Click on the picture to see them bigger
This market takes place everyday in a run down barn like structure, that is more than 100 years old
 
Wow... the USDA would have a field day here.  Yet the US food is more unsafe than many other non third world countries. 
Why is this?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like my meat under plastic in a grocery store.

Katie Parnell Robinson said...

I have some ideas why it isn't "safe"