Every Dog Has Its Day

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There are several excellent books about the careful and proper (ethical) 
treatment of livestock being grown for food. Try a search for Bernard E. 
Rollin. He has written and edited a number of superb and highly regarded 
books and articles on these issues. Including key work on Colorado and 
federal legislation on bioethics.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>
Cc: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: Every Dog Has Its Day


> Non-carnivores should delete before reading on:
>
> I've got to keep this book away from my wife.  She recently finished
> Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and vowed that she never
> eat corn-fed beef again, which isn't too hard for us with an abundance
> of seafood and freshwater fish available here in New Orleans.  But
> then she found a farmer at an outdoor market who sold her grass-fed
> beef.  The problem is that naturally-fed beef doesn't have the fat
> "marbling" which tastes so good and make for more tender meat.  After
> chewing about half a steak we ground the rest up for a spread, not a
> great way to eat steak.  My next attempt will be to cook it as if it
> were game-meat, marinating for a long time before cooking on low heat.
>
> Genetic engineering might eventually produce meat from animals with
> nearly no brains, and thus no suffering.  Would that be preferable to
> the present meat production?  I don't know myself.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:47 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The egg-layers never end up on the dinner plate - we've genetically
>> engineered two different kinds of chicken, one that produces eggs at a
>> truly unnatural rate (they're made to think it's spring year-round)
>> and one that gets so fat so quickly, it's the equivalent of a
>> ten-year-old who weighs 300 pounds. The ones who are put in the
>> wood-chipper (half of that laying population) have it relatively good.
>>
>> The most mind-blowing stuff in Foer's book is actually about
>> industrial fishing practices, which I've never given a crap about. It
>> enters SF territory. My jaw was hanging for a lot of the book.
>


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