They can now learn about what the animals have eaten, where they came from, and how they were raised.
They can also begin to understand how much effort is put into providing just one piece of meat.
Moreover, for the first time, they can truly feel the life that they are consuming.
Caption Elizabeth Bradford
It’s not something you get to see. Most meals that we eat…you know, we get to have the food come to our plate and we just eat it without thinking about it and where it comes from.
But I think that when you break an animal down, you get a sense of what it was, and you have a deeper appreciation for the meal.
NA These types of small butcheries trying to develop a better meat culture are slowing increasing in number in the USA.
Caption South Korea
NA We have been searching the path of the meal around the world, but what about our own (South Korea) meals?
Early December is the season for making kimchi at a cabbage farm in Haenam.
Just as rice is only delicious if the grains are good, kimchi only tastes delicious if the cabbage is good.
The sweet cabbage of early winter.
She picks the cabbage from the farm.
This is the home of Baek Jung-Ja, whose farm produces 200 heads of cabbage.
Caption Baek Jung-Ja, 77
The knife isn’t going through.
Wow, this is a nice cabbage. If there is no space for the knife to go through, the inside is packed full.
And only if the inside is yellow like this is it delicious.
Only the cabbages here grow like this every year.
Caption So how long have you had a cabbage farm?
It’s been a long time. After getting married, we have had a cabbage farm.
I was married in 1960, so it’s been 55 years.
NA For 55 years, every year around this time, they pick cabbages from this farm and begin the kimchi-making process, which takes around three full days.
On the first day, salt is poured over the cabbages.
Salt is the second most important ingredient.