Hot dogs and sausages are foods we are often told to avoid. The scraps of meat, organs, and fat of animals are ground, spiced, and formed into sausages and dogs.
But what if we looked at these meat options from a different perspective?
Traditionally, people used all of the animal:
muscle meat
organs (eaten whole or ground into sausage)
make bone broth for soup and then grind the bones into powder to fertilize the fields
use the hides for tanning leather, etc.
Why are we grossed out by the thought of eating the organ, as the whole organ, or ground into sausage meat? The nutrients needed to form these organs are exactly what you get when you eat them. For example: eating heart nourishes your heart.
The key to embracing ground up meats, hot dogs and sausages of many kinds, is to embrace products made from animals that are organically and pasture raised. This means the animals are
allowed to eat their natural diet,
supplemented with organic feed only and preferable of their natural food preferences,
not given hormones, steroids, and/or antibiotics, and
the final meat products are an all natural preparation meaning no fake stuff in the actual meat products you will eat (preservatives, stabilizers, artificial colors & flavors, etc.)
Ask your local Coop, natural food store, and supermarkets to stock food fit to eat.
Find your local farmers who raise animals on pasture, animals who roam freely and happily in their grassy, wild plant fields. Tlhe link back there, and this one, will connect you to our local food guide published yearly by Gardenshare.
Eating local food:
is more nourishing to your body cells and to the Earth, less miles to your plate and food maintains freshness and nutrients
saves petro chemicals to move food about the Earth, the more miles your food is trucked… the more gas / diesel that is sucked up and burned
supports local farm families and this is HUGE for local food security
local farm families put that money back into their farm and your local community
you create a community of farm happy people: both the farmers and the other farm customers
gives you better control of the choice of best farming practices, your vote by purchasing local-organic-pasture raised food encourages more farmers to transition to Earth friendly & sustainable farming practices
brainstorm on more ideas of why local farm products are better for you, the farmers, local communities, and the Earth
