Yes, I hate Paula Deen...here's why...

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102. Do what you need and want to do.

I'm offering my perspective and my priorities, but I understand that we all have different dietary needs and preferences and that my choices don't work for everyone. I do think that we as a society need to consider the ways that current food production practices are endangering our ability to meet our needs in the future, particularly as accelerating climate change, rising energy prices, etc. will demand very quick and very dynamic adaptations within our food system. My understanding the information I have right now is that more expensive food in the near future is pretty much an unavoidable reality at this point (though I do sincerely hope that this is wrong), so the question is whether we want to start producing that food in a way that can be maintained, or cling to methods that will ultimately fail us.

I will offer the encouragement that there are alternatives out there if the issue is important to you, and that a compromise between conscience and your needs or desires is not out of the question. Friends of mine with limited resources have been able to get one meal a week from a local/organic source. Others have found that it is affordable to split a whole butchered animal among 2-4 people (this would require a deep freezer). And to get to the root of the problem we need to change our federal and state agricultural policies to favor food that is grown in a less destructive way--this is probably the number one tactic to get such food down to a more reasonable price.

But this is all just my understanding of food issues, and my understanding of the best ways to navigate those issues in the most ethical ways possible given a limited budget. I don't fault anyone for going with what rings truest to them.