Picking and choosing my environmental battles

As a biologist by training, I am also an environmentalist. I am, however, a reasonable environmentalist.

I eat meat. It is tasty and delicious. I 'normally' have almost no b12 and iron in my blood. To deal with this, I eat red meat for 2-4 meals a week.

I do not approve of cutting down the rainforest to get my red meat, so at least half of that red meat, and hopefully someday ALL of it, comes from bison (buffalo) farmed in the United States. Since the bison farms nearest to me don't deliver, that meat mostly comes from USwellness meats and Northstar Bison (which supplies USwellness' bison.) I generally refuse to buy outside of the Northeast, but Wisconsin was blue before it was popular, and a dairy state, and has a lot more in common with Central New York (where I am from) than most other places, so I pick the battle in letting the fact that they use UPS and I don't drive win over my view of doing things locally.

Likewise, a friend of mine is an agricultural scientist, and she is complaining about grassfed non-organic meats getting the shaft from the public and not being good for beef cattle. Why?
Well, according to her, when an organic farm gets a cow with a surface infection, like you or I might get from playing outside roughly, many of these farms will sell or kill the cow rather than give it minor treatment with an antibiotic and risk losing their organic status. This, of course, reduces the quality of life for the poor cow and raises the cost of meat. Some less concerned farms, she suggests, actually use antibiotics and just don't mention it.
My partner is deathly allergic to penicillin....go past puffy rash and right into not breathing and death...
So we avoid uncooked things (heat kills penicillin fairly well) with penicillin relatives in them even at small amounts, blue cheese (mmmmmmm....blue cheese,) unpeeled citrus and non-organic milk. Our bread, for example, goes into the fridge, which means we've become accustomed to cold bread. The amount of penicillin allowed in non-organic milk is skirting the amount she can react to, so we don't risk it, even though she probably would not get enough to react to. (BUT....she reacted to my saliva when I was on penicillin, for crying out loud.) [NOTE: The **vast** majority of people who are allergic to penicillin do not have this sort of reaction, it is like the difference between the kid who gets hives from peanut butter and the kid who gets death from eating chocolate formed on equipment also used for peanut butter.]
So back to the friend with the dairy knowledge....
She states, and I believe her, that grassfed, hormone free Ruminantia are probably cared for better than "organic" ones, because they are getting neosporin on their cuts and scratches and they are being allowed to frolic out in the field rather than be kept in small "organic certified" pastures and fed grain from organic farms. She believes that there is probably less chance of getting penicillin from grassfed meat that might be openly treated with antibiotics as needed as opposed to those who might be given it and hidden. So we pick our battles on that front. Grassfed over organic.

So, now we have my new coffeemaker....
I bought a (hangs head) Keurig mini, which takes those evil little kcups.
I bought the mykcup, to use to make my own coffee pods, but these little plastic ones are so easy to use, and I am no longer wasting coffee. It is typical for me to drink 1-3 cups a day, but when I make a pot I toss 2/3 of it out. I mean to drink it, but it doesn't happen....

So I'm picking my battles.... I'm getting fair trade organic coffee in plastic, and not wasting a drop of it. Right now, I'm tossing out the spent kcups, but it seems to me they will work nicely in the garden for seedlings, so I'm thinking I might start saving them at some point... but