Conversation elsewhere about food choices makes this entry in the Cool Tools list particularly timely.
Author [Michael] Pollan, now an enlightened omnivore, challenges everyone to take responsibility for their food — no matter what it is — by tracking its path back to the sun. If you can face the path of your food in full knowledge and be at ease with it, then happy eating!
If you can raise it and harvest it, be it a potato or a cow, you can eat it without a qualm. But outsourcing the worst of it — read the book for details, as he doesn’t shirk from it, be it cutting the throats of chickens or shooting a wild hog — doesn’t work for me. Hard to say that without seeming judgmental and it’s not my intention at all.