So I saw the movie "Food"
This afternoon I went to Wally World to shop for groceries and absolutely could not make myself buy anything. All I could see was mistreated animals standing belly deep in manure or housed away in the dark 24/7, with absolutely no one giving a second thought how it must feel to live like that. Add to that the nightmare I have in re the changes that genetically modified foods MUST have on the human body... well... lord have mercy on us all is all that I can say!
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/movies/12food.html tells a bit about the movie if you have not seen it.

I just bought my house, in the middle of a small town in AL, so now I have a bit of spare land to raise some food, some 1/2 acre total, but it's too late to start growing now of course.
If there are any organic facilities around here I can't locate them. Where the hell do I buy the food I need to live???

Thoughts? Suggestions? Blech... this is disgusting :tear:

Why not check some of these places out: http://articles.directorym.com/Orga...olumbus_MS.html

And here is a helpful site: http://www.eatwild.com/products/mississippi.html

I use the eatwild site for Washington all the time.

Do you have any land? Raising your own livestock is one way to make sure that they're treated right. Laying hens are very easy to take care of. We have five in our backyard in Philadelphia - not enough to keep us stocked in eggs all the time, but we definitely appreciate every egg we get from our hens!

Didy, thanks for the link! Remarkably enough, Columbus MS is where I moved from! There I had a friend who raised the best eggs. I really miss them both

Capmikee, my fiancee's family has a farm where they raise fat, beautiful cows. As soon as he gets back into town, I'm going to ask him about buying one, having it processed and going into the freezer!

Just for info:
For example, the Wild Harvest brand of organic and natural foods, available nationally at SUPERVALU stores including Acme, Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, Cub Foods, Shaw’s and others, offers 250 organic and natural products, all priced at approximately 15 percent lower than national-brand organic and natural foods.

Products include mealtime staples like milk, eggs, meat and fresh produce, and other foods like pastas, sauces, cookies, crackers, cereal and juice. Recently the Wild Harvest brand expanded to include more family favorites, including pizza, kids’ juice pouches, ready-to-drink tea, fresh herbs, artisan bread and muffins and organic baby food.

Whole Foods Market is a good start.

Calling farmers is really the best way. There are numerous websites that have lists of good places for meat (localharvest.org) and there are a good number of mail order "happy" meat places like Tropical Traditions, but I've gotten the best deals by calling various farmers and visiting them to pick up their products.

There are other, er, different solutions. I volunteered to help slaughter at a chicken farm once and learned how to process poultry that way. Occasionally I put this skill to use by buying live animals, though now that I live in the city...well, I don't think my roommates would be so happy Getting to know the local hunting population or hunting yourself is another option. My grandpa lives down South and I get plenty of meat from him...many hunters have picky families or dislike the taste of game.

It can take awhile to find good meat sources. In the meantime you can always eat fish. While sustainable choices are best and farmed fish isn't terribly good for you, any fish is better than crackers and I have a hard time getting upset about cruelty against fish.

Trader Joes is also a great place for human food. I buy my fish there and (so the story goes) the fish are caught, processed and frozen on the ship.

Local Harvest (localharvest.org) and Eat Wild (eatwild.com) are both good places to start - they'll give you resources to call upon and from there, you'll learn of others who may not be in the lists on those sites. Talk to neighbors and friends about nearby Farmer's Markets - they're also a great source to find locally produced goods - organically grown produce, grass-fed meat and poultry, locally caught fish, artisan cheese, eggs from pastured hens, etc.

Good luck!

That's the best way to get stuff, but you do have to read the labels, as I have also found plenty of farmed seafood at Trader Joe's.

Thanks ya'll,
I've moved to an area where I know noone, so it's a little hard to get personal recommendations when you never talk to anybody lol.

Appreciate the websites, they're a great starting point.

Buy a chest freezer! Order a whole bunch of organic meats in bulk and freeze it. That's what my family does. We also catch our own fish and sometimes hunt a moose or a deer. We eat all of it too!

I never buy my meat at Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. It is sad looking, expensive, lean meat. I prefer a butcher shop or a Korean/Asian market. I also discovered that Shaw's and Stop & Shop will grind fresh ground beef for me, so that suits me fine.

Really? None of the stuff at our local TJ's is farmed. It's all wild-caught (or at least labeled that way). It's a pretty small store, though. There's no red meat and the only chicken is boneless/skinless breasts that are flash frozen into little plastic baggies. Ewww...

I guess TJ's can certainly vary. I buy grass-fed ground beef at my TJ's, and they have plenty of other beef as well. Sometimes I find wild-caught seafood there and sometimes it all seems to be farmed. Plenty of chicken choices too though I'm not that big a chicken fan - and if I want chicken I usually just buy the big family packs of chicken thighs (skin on) from my local Stop and Shop.