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Finalmente parte alla volta di hayes13.
Buona lettura

And here we are... don't know when I will be reading this. I have the Omnivore's Dilemma coming up on TBR. I think I will read it directly after that.

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It almost holds together. It was too long, and too repetitive and it lost a lot of steam by trying to do too much. But I think it's an important book because it is a start at educating us all, but especially Americans to think about their food. Americans are so ignorant about what exactly their food is. The true reality of their food.

Americans live, and like to live, thinking that food grows on trees. Not just apples and pears, but chicken and beef too, pre-packaged in Styrofoam. But they never ask, nor do they want to ask, what happens at the beginning of the process.

Most Americans have never seen a whole chicken, live or dead. I was shocked the first time I saw a chicken with head and feet still on at the butcher’s here in Italy, not because I thought it was disgusting, but because I wasn’t expecting it. Nor was I expecting the goat’s head staring out at me from the display case. I find nothing wrong with that. If you can't look your dinner in the eye you probably shouldn’t be eating meat anyway. For me it's a guarantee of health and freshness. I like to see the whole chicken before I cook it, to know that it was whole.

I think that we must return to the time of small "traditional" sustainable farms for our meat. And I hope that this book and others like it will take us in that direction. That might mean that there won’t be enough animal protein to go around for 3 meals and more a day. Our grandparents survived eating meat once a week, if they were lucky. It might not be a bad thing.

It might mean that meat becomes extremely expensive. And that farmers might get paid a fair price for the meat they produce. The money will ensure that animals are treated the way they should be. And that the whole process is sustainable, which is the desired result.

Once upon a time you had to go out to the farmyard and choose your chicken and chop its head off when you wanted a roast for Sunday lunch. You learn to be thankful for your chicken when you have to kill it and pluck it yourself. All very well if you live on a farm. Not so easy for city folk. So we delegate this job to someone else, and we have delegated the meat industry to the factory farm, turned it into an industry, and then we pretend to ignore what that means.

The question that Foer raises is just this. Can we justify the delegation? Is factory farming and the animal suffering that it causes worth it, just so we can have our Sunday roast? I think we have to start moving backward, we have to start returning to the time when farming, all farming, was a sustainable process. I don’t think we have a choice.

The important thing is that whatever you’re eating, either vegetable or meat, that it be done responsibly, sustainably, morally: Do you know what fertilizers and pesticides go on your vegetables? Do you know who put them there? and whether he has been instructed properly and wears protective clothing against the corrosive and poisonous elements he handles on a daily basis? Do you know who picked your tomatoes, your grapes, your lettuce? Do you know who produces your tofu? How many workers who prepare the food that you eat and serve to your family are illegal immigrants working under illegal and dangerous conditions?

It shouldn’t stop at factory farming. It should include everything that we eat. It’s that important.

And it is finally leaving.

Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for sending this book Hayes13, as a vegetarain, I am interested to see what JSF has to say on the subject.

You haven't given it marks out of 10 - I'm curious what you'd give ??

And thanks for the goodies, what a lovely parcel :)