A woman who had been living as a vegetarian for four decades has become a butcher after tasting one burger that made her realize she wanted to eat meat after all.
49-year-old Tammi Jonas became a vegetarian back in the 70s after she read a book detailing animal abuse that is occurring on meat processing farms.
Now, the mother-of-three is a proud owner of a pig farm and feels better than ever before.
As the woman claimed, she was extremely anemic during her third pregnancy and eating a burger helped her recover and made her feel better.
As Jonas from Victoria, Australia, revealed, the burger she ate was the first piece of meat she had tasted in over ten years.
“I was at work one day and just thought: ‘a burger would fix this,’” she said in an interview with 10 daily.
“I went back to red meat, so beef and lamb, once a week throughout the pregnancy, and it was some years longer before I had any pork or poultry.
“I never thought it was immoral to take an animal’s life for food – I’ve always been comfortable with my place in the food chain, but I thought it was immoral to treat [animals] cruelly, to not allow them to go outside and breathe fresh air and to be confined in crowds in sheds.”
In order to treat animals in a way that is “ethical” according to Tammi, she and her husband started a small-scale pig farm that she now manages.
“My journey from mindless industrial eater to vegetarian to ethical omnivore led me all the way to become a pig farmer to contribute to the growing movement to get pigs and poultry back out of sheds and onto paddocks,” Tammi added.
“We now grow, butcher, and cure all of our meat, and serve 80 households from our thriving community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm.”
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