Huffington Post - To Meat Or Not To Meat

By Laura Silverman
February 21, 2011

"I've spent quite a lot of time ruminating over the notion of eating meat. Like a cow chewing its cud, I have tried to carefully digest what I've gleaned from reading Fast Food Nation, Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, Eating Animals and Food Matters, and watching Supersize Me and the incredibly eye-opening Food Inc. At the very least, I think I can say I'm a conscious eater. I'm not going to delve into the horrifying truth of how government and industry conspired to convince us that we all need to have a big slab of (corn-fed) meat at the center of most of our meals on a daily basis, I'm just going to say that we should all be eating a great deal less of the stuff - for our own sake and that of the planet. But a recent article in Vanity Fair, where fluffy blonde wellness 'guru' Kathy Freston (Tom Freston's wife, so she can't be far from her own show on Oprah's new network) convinces a die-hard British carnivore to turn vegan really raised my hackles because of its facile presentation of this very complex issue..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-silverman/to-meat-or-not-to-meat_b_816285.html















See this HP article for Kathy Freston's take on the issue of eating meat.