By “quickie” I mean short post. Don’t be gross.
Please read Jay’s descriptive summary of commodity, branded, and free-range meat. It clears things up, unless you live with someone who cares less than you do, in which case, it can have the opposite effect. Wish Matt good luck, everybody.
Also, in my continuing theme of Can You Believe He Likes Me THAT Much?, Matt went with me to the Seahawks/Raiders pre-season game at Quest Field last night (tickets courtesy of Andy). The football was pretty good, though of course Oakland was running very hot/cold, as usual. More importantly, even though he had to miss his yoga class AND drive downtown, Matt didn’t hate it. The stadium is really neat. The crowd is (ahem) enthusiastic. Plus, he didn’t know this before, but football is fun to watch. I suggested a Mariner’s game before the end of the season, but his advice was not to blow all my sporting goodwill (that wasn’t actually the phrase he used, but you get the point) during our first summer here.
Football, really?! That would have taken all my sporting goodwill, too, and I like some sports.
Also yay Mama Testa for buying the good meat.
I don’t think my not buying so-called commodity meat is going to change the way it’s done–the government subsidies of the agriculture industry have to go to make things change. I’ll have to keep learning more about politics and economics before I have a plan of how to make that happen.