All Creatures Great and Small
Those of you who have been here a while will recall my unrepentant ruminations on the cruelty of meat eating. From foie gras to feet, there are certain triggers that confront us with the reality that the perpetuation of our lives inevitably involves the extinguishment of others.
Carnivores with a conscience and a streak of masochism can read all about the trail of suffering that ends on their dinner plate in a recent article on Slate. If the cannibal pigs don't get to you, the suffocating baby chickens probably will.
I think I'll skip the oatmeal for breakfast and have some bacon and eggs.
Comments
I don't find meat-eating by itself objectionable at all, and can't imagine a life without bacon, but the more I read about Big Meat the less I'm inclined to just pick up any old meat product at the grocery store. Anyway, the more ethically-raised, more naturally-fed animals taste much better.
Posted by: ladygoat | February 27, 2004 08:33 AM
That was pretty gruesome...
Posted by: lotus | February 27, 2004 04:53 PM
I can't believe I've been spending 40% more on free-range chicken for the added luxury of "some " exposure to pasture!
Then again, I have eaten a pound of grade a foie gras in the last month (and have a terrine on ice)
-- v-day leftovers.
Posted by: caroline | March 3, 2004 02:56 PM