Compassionate carnivores: a breed of meat-eating vegetarians?

I’ve mentioned my hesitance to eat meat before — and while I’m not a vegetarian per se, fitting one wouldn’t be much of a stretch for me. I like meat, but I don’t like to consider where it came from, what kind of hormones are in it or how many questionable practices were used to get that slab of meat on my plate. I’m what this commentary might shout a ‘compassionate carnivore’ — I don’t see much wrong with eating meat, as enlarged as the animal lived how nature intended it to. I’ll eat meat, but I prefer it to be free-range. I plus believe that the food industry needs to come up with sustainable farming practices.

Compassionate carnivores are a new breed of meat eaters that it’s thought are inspired by Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I can’t

say the book inspired me considering, well, I’ve yet to read it, but there’s lots of literature out there these days that calls into question to methods used to get animals on our plate. And whether you believe in vegetarianism or not, I think it’s urgent to figure out what you’re putting into your body — don’t you?

Original post by Martha Edwards

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