Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Political Rant
Now, I understand it is indelicate to talk about, but do you remember your mother saying to you, "Don't put that in your mouth! You don't know where it has been!"?
If you are not comfortable with cute furry animals being killed for food, and yet you still want to eat them, then you might be a little bit of a hypocrite.
But OK, so what? Who is not?
I don't care about that.
However, if you are SO afraid of facing the fact that your food was alive that you can't even ask where it came from, that you don't even want to know ANYTHING about its content, then you are abusing your privilege. Oh, and you are gross.
Because, pay attention: the killing is not the gross part.
If you have no choice what you eat, maybe you do not want to know where it came from. You can not do anything about it, so why dwell? But most of you I know have so many choices at the store, and even more on the Internet, there is no reason to ignore quality.
Unfortunately, much of the information I have seen regarding farming and nutrition is unbalanced and repellent to those who form the market. Why on earth would I care what vegetarians think about the cattle industry, really?
Do you really need the federal government to tell you to eat less food, that is of higher quality? Your body should tell you this. Good taste tells you this.
You don't have to think about the violent details in order to ask for a carefully prepared, high quality product. It is OK to ask if the chef washed his hands, if your steak contains antibiotic medication, what coatings cover your apple.
While you're at it, it is no deep secret to common sense that locally raised perishables are likely to reach you fresher than those imported to you from great distances.
For a fairly balanced NYT article, visit http://www.napafreerangebeef.com/html/links.htm# and click on "Power Steer". It explains the dilemma from the farmer's point of view as well as the health of me.
If you are willing to stomach a blush of anti-commercialism on this site, you can find some information on small, clean farm producers here:
http://www.factoryfarm.org/
If you are not comfortable with cute furry animals being killed for food, and yet you still want to eat them, then you might be a little bit of a hypocrite.
But OK, so what? Who is not?
I don't care about that.
However, if you are SO afraid of facing the fact that your food was alive that you can't even ask where it came from, that you don't even want to know ANYTHING about its content, then you are abusing your privilege. Oh, and you are gross.
Because, pay attention: the killing is not the gross part.
If you have no choice what you eat, maybe you do not want to know where it came from. You can not do anything about it, so why dwell? But most of you I know have so many choices at the store, and even more on the Internet, there is no reason to ignore quality.
Unfortunately, much of the information I have seen regarding farming and nutrition is unbalanced and repellent to those who form the market. Why on earth would I care what vegetarians think about the cattle industry, really?
Do you really need the federal government to tell you to eat less food, that is of higher quality? Your body should tell you this. Good taste tells you this.
You don't have to think about the violent details in order to ask for a carefully prepared, high quality product. It is OK to ask if the chef washed his hands, if your steak contains antibiotic medication, what coatings cover your apple.
While you're at it, it is no deep secret to common sense that locally raised perishables are likely to reach you fresher than those imported to you from great distances.
For a fairly balanced NYT article, visit http://www.napafreerangebeef.com/html/links.htm# and click on "Power Steer". It explains the dilemma from the farmer's point of view as well as the health of me.
If you are willing to stomach a blush of anti-commercialism on this site, you can find some information on small, clean farm producers here:
http://www.factoryfarm.org/
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