I hear you, but I also think that something must be said for the fact that I am getting all the meat I want, at prices that are competitive with and in many cases cheaper than the heavily subsidized industrial farms, but I am doing it with a family that gets none of those subsidies, and processed at a butcher in my county that doesn't get those subsidies either.

This could not scale to feed my old neighborhood in Chicago, for example. In that place, sourcing this way would be so much more expensive. I pay other prices for living in a very small city in the mountains, but this is a perk.

I guess I just want to caution us from applying the usual "privilege" critiques and pretending like only super-scalar universal solutions are worth considering.

I agree with the whole of your comment. Subsidies of industrial food systems shape our collective diets.

My diet includes bulk purchased lentils and chickpeas, rice, home-ground wheat and other very cheap staples that are the majority of my calories. We're eating lentils, beans, rice, making our own bread, and the meat is in about 1/4 our meals. I feel like we eat very well, perhaps better than I have in my whole life if I measure it by health and ethics. I spent years in Chicago where my corner bar had a Michelin star, and there were dozens of equally good places and man did I enjoy my privilege of being a well paid single remote working hacker there.