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If you have any soul at all, you are going to have days when the whole issue of eating meat becomes, well, an issue.
Unless you have already stopped. We know animals can suffer. And there is no way to eat them without making them suffer. So you can be a vegan or a vegetarian. You can do what I do and refuse to buy meat from anyone except a local farmer. Or you can just say the heck with it, which is what most people do. It's one of those constant human dialogues that really never crests or breaks. It just sloshes along. We seem to have re-engaged the issue a little, thanks to a new book by Jonathan Safran Foer. He's a guest on the show today, talking with Erica Andrews who raises animals for meat. The New Haven Review's Mark Oppenheimer has written about the same issues for Slate, and essayist Theresa Kramer from The Cut has her own story to tell. They're all here today for a carnivore show.
Join the conversation. Leave your comments below or e-mail colin@wnpr.org
Listener E-mail from Linda
The CT Farm-to-Chef Program just hosted a workshop for local chefs on the topic of locally raised, grass-fed meats. It's written up in this newsletter http://www..ct.gov/doag/lib/doag/FTC_November_2009.pdf Please let your listeners know that there ARE restaurants, schools, dining halls, and yes, even hospitals, who do care about this and who are using humanely raised meats.
Listener E-mail from Emelia
meat eat
Vegans are trying to elevate the human race, unfortunately our primordial instincts are too strong and 90% of the population will eat the weaker animals, I know some celebs that claim to be vegan, only to see them eating out of the meat cooler on film shoots, I too eat meat, and often am bothered by it, I try to buy only organic and non hormonal meat but know that this is just a marketing ploy since these things are for the eater's benefit not the eaten's
I hope in the next generation the vegans catch on I know if I ever have kids they will be weened off meats.