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This project successfully raised its funding goal on December 31, 2009.
Pledge $5 or more
Pledge $5 or more to get your name listed in a 'Thank You' letter posted on my blog and website once funding is successful.
Pledge $20 or more
Pledge $20 or more and get a rad 'The Ethical Butcher' T-shirt. You will be contacted once funding is successful for size and color options.
Pledge $50 or more
Since the bacon won't be available to most of the donors out there, this is your way to get involved! Pledge $50 or more and you get to develop and name your very own flavor! Sky's the limit on this one. You'll get a personal consultation to discuss and name your personal recipe. Customers will know your name and maybe you'll create the future best-selling flavor! For those in the area, there is also the option of one free slab of your choice in lieu of creating a new flavor.
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The Ethical Butcher is Berlin Reed. After gaining a wealth of knowledge and experience in the food mecca of Brooklyn, NY I now live in Portland, OR. As a butcher who was vegetarian for more than half my life, I strive to help people understand the importance of their choices. I hope to empower people to navigate this maze of grass-fed, pastured, free-range labels and misleading "green" marketing to find the most sustainable and responsible choices in meat and fish. As someone in the meat industry, I think it imperative that I form relationships with farmers, I do this through my main project, custom-cured heritage pork and lamb bacon. I cure in everything from whiskey to horseradish to watermelon using only heritage breeds in order to bring much-deserved attention to local farmers who are doing it right and to connect the public with the superior meat they raise.
In addition to writing my blog, The Ethical Butcher, I write essays for publication.
I too never received anything for my backing of this project. This is the second time I've been disappointed with a Kickstarter projects. 98% of the people are hard working, well meaning people, but it only takes a few bad apples to make a good thing go bad.
I agree with you Chris. Kickstarter should have a way to Kickout users that roll like this. It is not about the reward but it is all about the principle and the community that Kickstarter was built around. It is just... disrespectful.
Another project I backed that went completely M.I.A. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewhasse/edible-city-faces-of-the-food-revolution
So, this project was funded more than a year ago now and there still hasn't been any word on t-shirts for backers that selected that reward. I don't live in the pacific northwest and can't enjoy the bacon in person, so a t-shirt seemed like the next best thing. I'm happy to have helped with the funding, but it's hard to accept the sting of receiving nothing in return for my hard-earned cash. At this point I don't care so much about the t-shirt; it's the principle and the lack of respect for the spirit of Kickstarter that bums me out. This is not, after all, a charity. The Ethical Butcher's last update on shirts was in April of 2010, and he has since dropped out of communication completely on Kickstarter despite a flurry of activity on his blog.
Congratulations on the continued success of the business, but count me as a seriously disappointed funder who is now more gun-shy about which projects I support here. Funder beware!
FWIW... an interesting article in today's San Francisco Chronicle on the growth of artistically raised bacon:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi...
p.s. my pledge is for Mel and Andreae too :)
I made this pledge for davi ,she loves Bacon and soon will injoy it whith us
ps my pledge is a joint pledge with Alice Eisenberg, who was wooed by your delicious project when i shared your winter spice bacon sampler with her last winter!
ps my pledge is a joint pledge with Alice Eisenberg, who was wooed by your delicious project when i shared your winter spice bacon sampler with her last winter!
go berlin go!! i'm so excited about your project and so happy that you are living your dream!
My pledge is for Melanie who is without a bank card! I will be adding more to my pledge from other pals who want to donate and are without cards (or are Canadians) :)
I love what you're doing! I'm far away from being local but once you're good to go for mail order, I'm there.
good luck! bring some bacon back to nyc next time you're out here.
Yummy that looks so good. Hey can someone send me an invite to connect so I can post a project as well, thanks and I look forward in hearing from you
Mmm... bacon. Everything's better with bacon! My personal favorite: bacon-wrapped bacon. Yum!