Its been 2 years that Ive been on a self titled "free life diet". It translates literally and is based more around the ethics than the nutritional advantages. I have not been fastidious, but on the whole nothing more than avian (game and pigeon only), aquatic critters (non farmed) and rabbit has passed my lips in the protein department. I do not subscribe to free range poultry partly due to reading the tractor diaries as well as the conflicting information i have found on what qualifies as "free range" Neither of which lead me to believe these birds fulfill my "free life" criteria.
The obvious missing component in my diet has been the allowed foodstuff's made up by roadkill. And over these 2 years i have tried numerous times to get my head around that, the closest i got was meeting someone who told me of a roadkill dinner party group, which i was hoping to become a part of but never chased up.
Roadkill needs to be collected very soon after impact and drained of the blood that can lead to the meat becoming poisonous if left pooling and coagulating, and i have no idea how to tell whether a hit was recent enough....
Despite the missing component i have noticed that a free life diet is quite easy to stick to once the principles are assimilated, provides me with enough energy, and as a meat eater gives me enough of a sense of consciousness to rest easy at night! My concerns would be to ensure that my high volume of fish consumption doesn't concentrate mercury etc...in my body to too high a degree so i may look to monitor this in the future. And also that i find enough variation to stick to the eating pattern that id like to see me though the rest of my life.
I will of course blog the day i manage to stomach said squirrel sandwich!
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