Please click the ♡ button if you appreciate my work. This helps boost post visibility. Since 2008, I’ve been expressing zeal for the possibiliity of meat without cruelty and slaughter. That’s the year I proposed a lab-grown variant of foie gras, given the highly proliferative quality of liver cells, the horrible impacts of conventional production, and the high price (meaning easier profits than with, say, nuggets). Here’s some of what I wrote after Chicago ended a temporary ban on serving force-fattened duck liver:
I came from a very "meart and potatoes " culture and only now begin to change to a plant.based preference because of information all around me, And --oh! those veggies in all their beautiful colors and tastes! Thanks for all the information you provide to those of us lost ouat there in cow- land.
Thanks so much for publishing this Andy. I really appreciated Hannah Ritchie's post. There's an obvious choice of course: eating a vegan diet is one of the most powerful choices we can make for the environment AND for animals. The choice doesn't have to be which animals to eat, but whether to eat them at all. In general, the lower we eat on the food chain the better for everyone (including our own health). Win, win, win :)
And Hannah Ritchie's learning journey included her transition to a vegan diet. Walking the walk. We are not there yet, but your friendship and example are helpful always.
Great timing! My novel, Meat from the Goldrush, is out there being read baby Jonathan Swift among others, and these takes are timely -- as all your columns are -- Andrei Codrescu
I came from a very "meart and potatoes " culture and only now begin to change to a plant.based preference because of information all around me, And --oh! those veggies in all their beautiful colors and tastes! Thanks for all the information you provide to those of us lost ouat there in cow- land.
Thanks for being here and I hope you can share the post with others.
Thanks so much for publishing this Andy. I really appreciated Hannah Ritchie's post. There's an obvious choice of course: eating a vegan diet is one of the most powerful choices we can make for the environment AND for animals. The choice doesn't have to be which animals to eat, but whether to eat them at all. In general, the lower we eat on the food chain the better for everyone (including our own health). Win, win, win :)
And Hannah Ritchie's learning journey included her transition to a vegan diet. Walking the walk. We are not there yet, but your friendship and example are helpful always.
Consider me your go to person to help in any ways I can :)
Great timing! My novel, Meat from the Goldrush, is out there being read baby Jonathan Swift among others, and these takes are timely -- as all your columns are -- Andrei Codrescu
I need to learn more! Can you include a link? Maybe it’s time to get you back on sustain what!
The book is out to publishers. Will send link when we ger the word. Reading you is always grand 🥎
Misspelled meat! Mis-consumed lots of it.