Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, asked readers for advice on the rules they use when choosing their food. 2500 submissions later, Pollan made his list of his favorite 20 food rules.
As a meat producer,the vegetarian responses always beg me for comment. Usually, I don’t say anything. I understand vegetarians reasons for avoiding meat protein; I just disagree with their reasoning.
The vegetarian food rule for today?
‘Don’t eat anything you wouldn’t kill yourself.”
I do live by that rule. I do not have a problem killing things and eating them. I hope you do not find me insensitive by saying that. We are part of a larger ecosystem that most of us want do not want to believe in. The reality of the harshness of life makes us uncomfortable. Nature is nasty and very unforgiving. I am in my warm house and outside my walls it is cold and snowing. But if I was stuck out there overnight, only a mere 20 feet from where I now sit, and froze to death, the first animal that found me would lick the carcass seeing if there was something to eat on me, even herbivores like cattle or deer. That is how nature works. Eat or be eaten. Yes, it is harsh. It isn’t nice. Welcome to reality.
Please follow the link and check out the article. A very good read.
