"Eating animals", about factory farming

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I buy local grass-fed beef even though it's 2-3x more expensive than factory farmed beef flown from miles away.

I did grow up in farm country, we ate meat from animals we raised (and named, often as not). The different conditions animals and the workers experience are certainly at the forefront of my mind when I choose which critters to eat.

Similarly with fish. Salmon used to come up the creek by my mom's house to spawn. It was great to watch them leaping the falls and spy on them resting in the quiet pools. Until the county decided to put in a man-made gated "salmon spawning habitat" down stream where the water was slow and sluggish and exposed to eagles, and that "habitat" killed off all the salmon. Now you have to go to the river to see a salmon. Not sure what the bears are eating now instead of the salmon that used to come up the creek. Well-meaning city folks sure can make a mess of things.

Well, that was kind of a rant on salmon environments, but what I meant to say is I will pay extra for local wild-caught Pacific salmon rather than buy the cheaper farm raised Atlantic salmon that have been fed dye to make their flesh pink.

And if I can't find "good" meat, I just don't eat meat.