Taking Home His Eighth-of-a-Cow

New York Times: I bought an eighth of a cow last weekend. The rancher, from western Washington state, drove into Seattle, where I live, with a truck of frozen packages – ground chuck, steaks, roasts. In a school parking lot, he stood in a pouring rain, coatless, and thanked the several dozen customers who had gathered for their meat pickups. Our support, he said – ragtag and soggy as it seemed to me - made an environmentally sustainable, local grass-fed beef industry possible. But as my wife and I waited under...

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