Monday, December 6, 2010

Mother Jones - Big Meat vs. Michael Pollan

By Wes Enzinna
November/December 2010 Issue

"Carrin Flores is a cattle rancher's fantasy come true: An attractive 26-year-old with stylish eyeglasses and glossy lipstick, she's unabashed about her love of cows. 'They are so cute. Their cute little tongues. Oh, and their eyelashes,' she says. 'But I also friggin' love to eat them.' She cooks beef four nights a week and can list dozens of ways she likes it: T-bone, tri-tip, boneless rump roast...Flores, a graduate student in veterinary medicine at Washington State University-Pullman, plans to work in the beef industry when she finishes. But she's already a graduate of the Masters of Beef Advocacy (MBA), an industry-funded program that trains college students to fight back against critics of big agribusiness, like Michael Pollan...."

http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/11/michael-pollan-backlash-beef-advocacy

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