Thinking about food

Rod Dreher offers interesting thoughts about a "mere housewife" who poured a great deal of energy into home gardening. Makes me wonder if giving up one salary to live a simpler life would yield more by way of ecological living in general.

And Seattle's healthy food examiner Kristen Rezabek serves up a Christian perspective on meat-eating. 

My younger daughter's a vegetarian.  We chuckle at the story of her sitting in her booster seat at about 4 years of age while the rest of us were pouring through a pile of peel and eat shrimp.  The Eco-Wife noticed a very quiet "ow" coming from her end of the table.  She was grousing at the thought of our pulling the skin off those critters and then eating them.  Just didn't sit well with her.

So I think her being a vegetarian has more to do with her sense of personal taste than her faith, but it certainly has impacted our family's view on how much/often we eat meat, and on how the animals we raise for food are treated and prepared.

UPDATE: Interesting bit in the LA Times on sustainable kosher. It's not just for Jewish folks anymore.