Every week I buy three chickens, and 1 1/2 pound combined hearts and livers. Half the chicken goes to us humans and the other half goes to feed the three family cats.
I make raw cat food for my cats every week.
Three chickens a week plus organ meats, add up to a lot of plastic packaging. So there was only one thing to do for Plastic Free July.
I take my roasting pan to a chicken farm, and buy them locally without packaging. It all goes into my pan, and within minutes it's in my refrigerator, waiting to be turned into cat food and divvied up to be made into dinners for us humans.
Yes all three whole chickens fit in this thing. It's vintage. A remnant from the days when people would cook a hunk of meat and live on it all week.
There are a lot of reasons I do this.
1. By making my own cat food, I not only ensure the quality, but also I am not supporting an industry I know very little about--the Pet Food Industry.
2. I am supporting a local farm--family run business, not corporate farming. The money goes to support people I know who live in the community, and share similar values.
3. I know the farmers, I know the operation. I know the birds are raised organically, and treated humanely because I have actually worked on this particular farm.
4. Zero plastic packaging! Zero disposable packaging.
5. The freshest food you can get, is that which is grown and raised in your own area.
6. Extremely low fossil fuel consumption to get my chicken because it's not coming from out of the area.
That's all for Day 3.
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