Nov. 13th, 2007

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Thanks to all of you various omnivores and others to contributing to what turned out to be a really really interesting discussion! I almost didn't post that last entry, because I thought it was too confrontational. Of course, I was being a bit nasty when I said "how come you don't have to think about what you eat and I do," but it was to make a point, and I think it was heard. No one HAS to think about what they eat, but by and large you all do. If everyone thought about what they ate (and acted and legislated accordingly) factory farms would be illegal, most meat would cost more than most not-meat, and normal meals would consist of mostly plant matter with a little bit of animal on there--the way they did between the last ice age and the mid-20th century, when a huge slab of meat became first a status meal and then an obligation.

I don't believe in absolutes. I can't live all one way. Even when I was vegetarian, I ate cheese and eggs, and I didn't agonize over rennet or gelatin (I did scan labels for carmine, but I don't bother with that any more either). Drumlin Farm sausage broke me of my 15 year stretch of vegetarianism--hey, I know how those pigs were treated, I even knew some of their names. That led to a slope that had me trying humanely raised this and that, and sometimes just eating what I wanted because I liked it and it tasted good. Yes, there is guilt (thus, in part, the last post) but there is also "life goes on." I haven't brought myself to the point of eating meat outside the house (my comfort zone?) and there are some friends who, if they find out, are going to try to ram meat down my throat (and it is so easy to play the veg card in those times).

I discovered that I don't really like meat, unless it's seasoned within an inch of its life. (Spicy wings, sausages, bacon, sausages...) I could get by another several lifetimes without eating beef of any kind. Its heavy and bland, and sorry, I don't appreciate steak enough to warrant eating it. Chicken is the most boring kind of meat, that's why exotic game is always compared to it, but some day I'll own some (gotta get the eggs). Pork, the most eschewed of the main modern meat types, is the best tasting to me. I may tell people that I'm a porkatarian, see how that goes over. Or maybe I'll just be who I am, and not attach an -arian to my identity.

Again, thanks for your thoughts, that was awesome. Next time I post something provocative like that, I'll make commenting conditional on a nickel donation to bowling for rhinos! ;)
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