title: The Ethical Meat Handbook: Complete Home Butchery, Charcuterie and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore
author:  Meredith Leigh 
description: <BR>"This book is practical, yes, but it s also deeply personal. Meredith Leigh will teach you how to raise animals, butcher them, and cook and cure their meat. Even better, she explains what it means and why it matters, and her passion is infectious. After reading this book, I longed to smell the deep funk of the barn, to feel the squish of mud beneath my chore boots, to heft a butcher knife in my hand."<BR>---Mark Essig, author of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig <BR>"This is a powerful, positive book about a powerful, positive alternative, engaging us in shaping a new food and agriculture narrative. It leaves us with an overwhelmingly clear picture of just how important ethical meat is to the future of the entire food system. It is exactly what our movement needs, a call for people to take action, educate themselves, and participate. This book is a gem, a gift to everyone looking to be the alternative to a passive recipient of the status quo. This book -- its philosophy, honesty, artistry, and practice, represents a way forward -- the only way to go. "<BR>---Jean-Martin Fortier, author of "The Market Gardener"<BR>"<br /><br /><br><i>This book is practical, yes, but it s also deeply personal. Meredith Leigh will teach you how to raise animals, butcher them, and cook and cure their meat. Even better, she explains what it means and why it matters, and her passion is infectious. After reading this book, I longed to smell the deep funk of the barn, to feel the squish of mud beneath my chore boots, to heft a butcher knife in my hand.</i><br>---Mark Essig, author of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig <br><i>This is a powerful, positive book about a powerful, positive alternative, engaging us in shaping a new food and agriculture narrative. It leaves us with an overwhelmingly clear picture of just how important ethical meat is to the future of the entire food system. It is exactly what our movement needs, a call for people to take action, educate themselves, and participate. This book is a gem, a gift to everyone looking to be the alternative to a passive recipient of the status quo. This book -- its philosophy, honesty, artistry, and practice, represents a way forward -- the only way to go. </i><br>---Jean-Martin Fortier, author of <i>The Market Gardener</i><br>"<br /><br /><br><em>This book is practical, yes, but it's also deeply personal. Meredith Leigh will teach you how to raise animals, butcher them, and cook and cure their meat. Even better, she explains what it means and why it matters, and her passion is infectious. After reading this book, I longed to smell the deep funk of the barn, to feel the squish of mud beneath my chore boots, to heft a butcher knife in my hand.</em><br>---Mark Essig, author of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig <p/><em>This is a powerful, positive book about a powerful, positive alternative, engaging us in shaping a new food and agriculture narrative. It leaves us with an overwhelmingly clear picture of just how important ethical meat is to the future of the entire food system. It is exactly what our movement needs, a call for people to take action, educate themselves, and participate. This book is a gem, a gift to everyone looking to be the alternative to a passive recipient of the status quo. This book -- its philosophy, honesty, artistry, and practice, represents a way forward -- the only way to go. </em> <br>---Jean-Martin Fortier, author of <em>The Market Gardener</em> <br><br /><br /><br><i>This book is practical, yes, but it's also deeply personal. Meredith Leigh will teach you how to raise animals, butcher them, and cook and cure their meat. Even better, she explains what it means and why it matters, and her passion is infectious. After reading this book, I longed to smell the deep funk of the barn, to feel the squish of mud beneath my chore boots, to heft a butcher knife in my hand.</i><br>---Mark Essig, author of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig <p/><i>This is a powerful, positive book about a powerful, positive alternative, engaging us in shaping a new food and agriculture narrative. It leaves us with an overwhelmingly clear picture of just how important ethical meat is to the future of the entire food system. It is exactly what our movement needs, a call for people to take action, educate themselves, and participate. This book is a gem, a gift to everyone looking to be the alternative to a passive recipient of the status quo. This book -- its philosophy, honesty, artistry, and practice, represents a way forward -- the only way to go. </i><br>---Jean-Martin Fortier, author of <i>The Market Gardener</i><br>
zlib_text: Praise for
  The Ethical Meat Handbook, Revised & Expanded Second Edition
  Meredith Leigh is, in her own words, “a lifelong pilgrim for food,” but not
  just any food. She is a pilgrim for living food, real food, and food produced
  within intricately balanced natural systems, which, Leigh gently and
  elegantly reminds us, we can either live peacefully and humbly within or
  fight tooth and nail against. This book is for anyone looking to become an
  active, thoughtful participant in an intricate and always changing living
  system of food, community, and deliciousness.
  — Camas Davis, executive director of the Good Meat Project,
  founder of the Portland Meat Collective
  Community. Vitality. Deliciousness. The Ethical Meat Handbook is more
  than a dive into butchering, it’s a look into our ecosystem and taking back
  our planet through good food and through mindful sourcing and eating in
  our day to day lives. Meredith Leigh has a visionary approach towards
  ethical slaughter, whole animal utilization, and 