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Life | 29 July 2020
The Fat of the Land
The mass consumption of animals has a deep, underlying presence in our current troubles, from the role factory farming plays in increasing the likelihood of pandemic outbreaks to the panic buying of meat products as a fear response. So it's timely to consider how disconnected we are from the origins of the food we eat. This Broadsheet piece, published six years ago, profiles self-sufficiency advocate Rohan Anderson and his push for a more honest approach to the food that sustains us.
I’m standing in Rohan Anderson’s paddock, holding a small rabbit that two minutes earlier was enjoying being alive. It is now bloody, lifeless and missing half its face.
Anderson approvingly calls the animal he just shot a, “New-season rabbit.” But from what I can see that’s just a nicer way of saying “baby bunny”.
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A lot of us are having to get by with less money at the moment. Even if you’re doing ok, there’s probably been some forced belt tightening. It made me think about my mum, Ros Hart, who raised four boys (including putting us all through private schools) on a single parent’s pension. We had no money but there was always delicious, healthy food on the table and we always got great presents on our birthdays and at Christmas time. How the hell did she do it? What was the secret?
The following is what she told me: her “rules for living frugally but well”. A lot of it is common sense. Some of it flies in the face of modern convention around household expenditure. But there’s plenty of ideas in here to help get you through the pandemic and into the recovery.
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