20 Favorite Food Rules by Michael Pollan
Or wear. And really, it should be more like “anything you aren’t willing to torture yourself” given the incredible degree of violence and pain involved in modern slaughtering practices.
Point taken, but I don’t think this sentiment should be meant to apply only to veggies or vegans.
In fact, I think the statement is more powerful as an argument FOR being a more responsible carnivore. To hold no illusions about what you are eating or your place in the food chain. To take responsibility for your place in the order of things.
When I keep fish, I keep only what I need and intend to use. The same goes for wild game. I use as much of the animal as I can, and try not to waste, as that is something I consider disrespectful. When I buy meat, I do my best to buy meat that has been raised humanely and killed respectfully.
Would I be able to look an animal in the face, before killing it and eventually eating it? I would, and I have… not out of cruelty or lack of emotion, but out of a respect for the natural order of things, and a desire to be a part of that, and I think there’s something to be said for that.
Agreed.
My own criticism of a carnivorous lifestyle, however, is not reflective of some absolutist moral indignation but rather a depreciation of modern socio-political and religious dogma that insists, always, on anthropological sovereignty.
