dagblog - Comments for "I'm OK, You're Meat"

Pendulum swinging back? Yes!

mageduley — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:31:46 +0000

Pendulum swinging back? Yes! Give peas a chance!

we probably only need half as

anna am — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:19:52 +0000

we probably only need half as much livestock for slaughter, donal. we consume way more meat and poultry than human beings need. and if halving production would allow for raising livestock "more ethically and sustainably," i'd pay more and do with less because of that if i had to, and still say hip hip hooray.

trouble is the food industry is ugly and mean and powerful and i don't see how anything even close to this could happen anytime soon. i mean, the whole thing, one endof the industry to another, is a cockup -- from the production of poultry and meat to the way we make the good for you healthy children's food known as peanut butter that, in most commercial varieties, is about as good for kids as eating Crisco would be. and the fish farms are beyond skanky -- not to mention major polluters.

but i think your post is fabulous, because, well, who talks about this stuff? and what we eat, and put in our kids mouths to eat, is important. one of the things that made me want to applaud when obama first took office was that he also talks about this stuff. i mean, when has that ever happened?

but those ugly mean powerful bastards are going to fight tooth and nail. they already are.

They don't know, no one

Richard Day — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:08:06 +0000

In reply to I'm OK, You're Meat

They don't know, no one knows

How comforting

I won't argue with that.

Donal — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:33:15 +0000

In reply to Donal...it's not just the

I won't argue with that.

Donal...it's not just the

cmaukonen — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:30:55 +0000

In reply to I'm OK, You're Meat

Donal...it's not just the farms, it's the whole damn industrial food network right on down the line. Just try to find meat tha isn't mostly additives and not cured with sugar and some preservative that makes it last until the turn of the century.

Or vegetables that contain nutrients or fruit that is not green as grass when it's picked and not coated with some insecticide. And 10% is pitched out if it doesn't sell by some expiration date.