A Burger flipped this Aussie vegetarian's switch; now she's a butcher

A woman who followed a decade long vegetarian lifestyle flipped completely after she ate a burger during her pregnancy. woman w owns her own butcher farm. Tammi Jonas made a lifestyle choice for herself, which completely changed her life. 

Vegetarian turned Butcher 

49-year-old woman was reportedly a vegetarian during 1970s. She told international media that she turned vegetarian after she read a book on treatment of farm animals, which disgusted her eugh to drop idea of eating n-veg. However, after ten years she again decided to taste meat for first time. Tammi Jonas resides in  Victoria, Australia, during her third pregnancy, she was suffering from acute anemia and that instigated change. Jonas said that one day, she randomly decided to have a burger and she turned back to eating red meat, beef, and lamb, once a week during her pregnancy. She took her time to taste pork for first time which led to her having her own pasteurized pig farm. 

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‘Killing of animals for food is t unethical’

Jonas said that she was never against killing of animals and never believed that it was immoral to consider animals as food. However, she did accept that initially, she felt it was immoral to treat animals with a cruelty which would mean keeping m cd and t letting m live ir life. Jonas along with her husband Stuart did collective research only to find out that y can earn a living by having a poultry farm on a small scale and treating animals with proper care and ethics. 

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Jones practices ethical farming

Tammi Jonas w has her own website where she said that ‘My journey from mindless industrial eater to vegetarian to ethical omnivore led me all way to become a pig farmer to contribute to growing movement to get pigs and poultry back out of sheds and onto paddocks.’ She furr said that “We w grow, butcher and cure all of our meat, and serve 80 households from our thriving community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm." According to Jonas, y practice ethical farming, where animals are allowed to live freely as long as y are on farm. She also said that y don't use any harmful chemicals while breeding to ensure organic farming of animals. She believes that killing an animal for consumption is t unethical if it has had a good life. Also, she calls herself an ethical omnivore.

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