Free range pork

We walked into Pak n Save today and there was free range pork chops from Freedom Farms – shows the power of the consumer. I didn’t check to see if they had their bacon as well as we weren’t buying bacon today. They had Freedom Farm leaflets there as well with the product which was interesting – I’ve never seen any company have leaflets in a supermarket before? (Freedom Farm link can be found over on the right in the links). One thing that struck me reading the pamphlet that was also noticeable in the news coverage the last few weeks is the lack of focus on products that have a pork component e.g. sausages. How many kiwis would give up their staple sausage? Over the last few months since I wrote about the shocking conditions that many NZ pigs were kept in (Feb 2008) hubby and I have come to a compromise as he would not give up all pork. Roast pork, pork chops etc, sausages are not on the shopping list. Hubby will still have bacon but I won’t, thereby reducing the amount we have to buy. Ham we have reduced the same way as well. We will probably change to free range for ham and bacon now that it is a bit easier to get but will just continue to try not eat other pork products as much as possible.