Do you subscribe to Meatingplace headlines and blog updates? I can’t remember how I came across the site, but I continue to read and get pissed; read, get pissed. It’s my education on inserting bias and “fast, flexible, fully automated sausage production.”
The industry blogs are even more fun, where bloggers like Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton of Poultry Perspectives argue semantics: in her view factory farms and family-owned farms are mutually exclusive. And the mere existence of factory farms is questionable. Oh, and this gem: “Poultry farmers are farmers and by nature these people love the environment otherwise, they could have a career in an office doing much less physically exhausting work.” (from “The message we need to shout,” 9/1/09; I’d link to it, but articles and blogs require a sign-in.)
Yesterday’s Meatingplace headlines were peculiar in that two stories were inconveniently interwoven.
The referenced author is Jonathan Safran Foer, whose new book is titled Eating Animals. He has an erroneously titled opinion piece here. I guess an honest, thorough title wouldn’t be as provocative. Do you think Foer’s critique of animal agriculture will be taken seriously? Is there room for another voice in this discussion?
I’m glad I have you to keep us with Meatingplace for me! Disgusting!
I think it would be easier to take the Foer article seriously without the erroneous headline! I always wonder how average readers not involved in sustainable agriculture take articles like this. I think there is room for another voice, but that voice needs to give clear alternative options for folks unwilling to give up meat entirely.