Now don't get me wrong. I'm trying to get a nice garden started, and I really prefer GOOD meat to the...stuff...I can get in stores. Which is why I try to eat stuff like bison (buffalo) or elk (and both are farm-raised out here) or wild salmon. But I've only been in the house 18 months and other things have had to take priority.

I want folks to go into with their eyes wide open instead of the starry-eyed romanticism of the 1970s.

Were I to have my way, you wouldn't eat meat you didn't kill and butcher yourself (or help to kill and butcher), or veggies you didn't grow or help to grow.

But that's REALLY romantic. And a lot of people would starve.