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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >I trust my body and have now requested all friends to not invite me to  
> red meat meals.

At lest that's something a person can rather easily live without.  I'd wager 
it's the mistreatment of commercial meat.  

Even raising it ourselves, pork is a luxury food.  Beef is very, very seldom. 
 We haven't raised a beef-cow in several years and the milk cow was AI'd with 
sex specific semen to give us another heifer.  Most of our red meat has been 
chevon and venison.  I'd love to have some sheep here, but I'm not paying 
hobby prices for the lambs and so far that's all I've been able to find.

But even at that red meat is getting to be a rarity.  Mostly it shows up in 
tacos, tamales, soup, and such.  One modest sized goat makes 500 tamales or 
more.  It isn't costing that much more to raise chicken, quail, and rabbits 
... 
but the cost of meat from large animals except our feral goats and wild deer, 
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