Wanna Buy a Cow?

My friend bought one quarter of a grass fed cow. She and her friends in Reno are endeavoring to eat more healthy so they’ve co-purchased a cow (this is her second one, the first one cost her less than $2.30 per pound) and she explained that the meat that she gets is delicious and hormone free. She then has a freezer full of porterhouse steaks, tri-tip, ground beef, flank steak, etc. She has also started a garden coop where she and her friends plant vegetables, take turns rotating soil, pulling weddings, watering, etc and then share the spoils of the harvest.

All I can say is how cool? I marvel at people that actually take the initiative to do something about the unhealthy state of the food that we ingest and hope that our bodies and the bodies of our children don’t fail us. I also think about my great grandmother who lived to be 116. No, that is not a typo and no she wasn’t in the Guinness Book of World Records. Honest to God, my mother’s grandmother was 116 when she died. She never ingested medication, no aspirin, no antibiotics, just tea, ginger root and some herbs from her garden. She ate fruits and vegetables she planted and harvested pesticide free before it was en vogue to do so. She probably led a blissfully stress-free life; no worries about nuclear proliferation, global warming, dirty politicians, bankrupt states, a sagging economy or failing 401Ks.

Other than higher prices, which if you ask most people is a pretty big deterrent; it is possible to take bigger steps to eating healthy. I have switched to organic eggs, lemonade, pasta, chicken, fruit and even some snacks like crackers and cookies. I am sure it is not enough. Though it seems a little crazy, I actually do think I’m going to investigate buying a grass fed cow of my own. Any takers?