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Great response to my post about meat, Carla, thank you.
Clearly there has to be some kind of trade off when we switch from eating what might perhaps best be described as “an everyday typical somewhat miscellaneous diet that usually includes meat” over to a diet involving no death of any creature that has been living and growing either on land or in air or water and thus otherwise to a strictly vegetarian or vegan diet around food that we have succeeded in growing for our self and our loved ones.
You have explained this challenge perfectly and I empathise with you as well as encourage you in your quest to effectively become self-sufficient as a vegetarian and/or veganite.
I am intimately familiar with this challenge especially as I am currently living in a shared rental space of a house with a very small yard most of which has been covered with concrete!
So happens that my current “landlord” is a self-confessed alcoholic who, though he has been in the habit of cooking some relatively seemingly “good food” for himself albeit that it has rarely been around using either organic and/or non-GMO sourced food components and, almost invariably, his meals have been around consuming some form of killed – and even factory farmed – living creature that has been made the center piece of his meals; he is not interested in growing any of his own healthy food items. On the other hand, he has covered whatever growing space there is here with a multitude of flowers and palm type trees.
Hence I have resorted to creating my own raised vegetable beds in small spaces that I have adopted for my own purposes and needs and have also grown the classic “tomatoes in small containers” that have produced reasonably well over each of the past 2 summer growing seasons here in SoCal.
I wish you every success in your adventure.
Namaste, \patricia
