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My health would never allow myself to be a vegetarian. However my diet if one wishes to call it that is for the most part local now. If it is not within 120 to 180 miles of my house it is typically never bought, and most of it is within a much smaller radius of 30 miles. Of course there are many exceptions such as banana's which just naturally transport well. Whole spices, tea's and such.
Yet I have met my beef, I have laid my eyes on both the chickens and the eggs they produced. I pick out which pig I want and my fish is either caught locally or only bought from the fish guy on two days out of the week when he brings his catch in from the ocean. Vast majority of vegetables I have grown myself or I get at PYO farms. I know what medicines if any my animals have had, I know the types of fertilizers used if any and just about everything else.
Right now I am basking in many veggies like tomatoes and the like which aside from those that I will dry or can, I will not eat out of season. I know soon though that my bounty of zucchini, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, corn, artichokes and other goodies will soon be replaced with kale, squash, gourds, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and other fall crops like lettuce again.
I guess I eat what is considered a balanced and also local/seasonal diet like I think we were supposed to.
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