Conscious Meat Eating

“It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.”

I love meat.  It sometimes shocks people when I say that after a diatribe about how awful it is for the environment to eat meat.  The problem, in our current society, that like anything else we do we eat meat in excess.  There is no doubt that the way we produce the majority of the meat in our society is unsustainable and unhealthy.  But that doesn’t mean that in order for one to feel good about being an environmentalist one must give up meat altogether.

Check out this article from the NY times which lists all of the ways that meat eaters can actually feel good about the food that they consume.  Unfortunately, this system will not produce enough meet for us to all eat a double bacon cheeseburger once a day, to start off every day with steak and eggs, or to eat street meet after every bar visited on a Halloween night.  We must reduce our consumption, and demand that our food supply is healthy, sustainable, and, if we are lucky, might actually taste better too.

via Op-Ed Contributor – The Carnivore’s Dilemma – NYTimes.com.

~ by swimfast on October 31, 2009.