Ex-Veggie now owns butcher shop - could she be more deranged?

July 23, 2008

[Detroit Free Press - comments at full story link]The red lipstick is the first clue the white-coated butcher sawing upa grass-fed California lamb isn't your typical meat-cutter....But behind those vintage trappings, Avedano's is on the cutting edgeof 21st-Century food trends, owned and operated by three women -- onean ex-vegetarian -- and selling sustainably raised, locally producedmeat...."I never dreamed I would own a butcher shop," Eisemann says, addingwith a laugh, "It's still kind of surreal. I was a vegetarian for 15years."She started eating meat again about six years ago, but notindiscriminately, looking for sustainably raised and humanelyslaughtered meat....Butchering is "primal. It's really primal," she says. "One of myfavorite stories is this butcher that

we hired, we were sawing a vealin half ... and I was holding the legs and he was sawing it in half --I felt like I was a cavewoman or something. It was pretty awesome."...A recent customer was neighborhood resident Michele Alesandro, whostopped by while her children played on the sidewalk."This is pretty much the only place we buy meat," she said. "We wereall sort of deciding to go vegetarian and (her husband) was having ahard time with it and he was, 'All right, I'm going to go humanelyraised, humanely slaughtered animals.' " For a while that meantfinding a place to shop downtown so when Avedano's opened, "we werevery excited."-- full story:http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/FEATURES02/807230323/1025/FEATURES

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July 27, 2008

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Sara <judacia1978 Re: Ex-Veggie now owns butcher shop - could she be more deranged? Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 12:44 AM

posted in reply to the article:iluvanimals wrote:Ms. Eisemann must be so proud of herself having gone from vegetarianism to the thrill of sawing a slaughtered baby cow in half (she calls it veal) and feeling the "primal thrill". I hope her 'awesome" experience was worth the slaughter of the baby cow, who before it's slaughter was torn away from it's mother, causing suffering to both the mother and baby cow.And neighborhood customer, Michelle Alesandro is deluding herself with the whole "humane slaughter" thing. No such thing. Humane slaughter is a myth.Humane myth: An idea being propagated by the animal-using industry and some animal protection organizations that it is possible to use and kill animals in a manner that can be fairly described as respectful or compassionate or humane.www.HumaneMYTH. org7/23/2008 6:58:10 PM