Is an unexamined meal worth eating?
Friday, 24 August 2007 by Joscelynn TomawEver since Megan McArdle moved her blog over to The Atlantic, she’s been hell bent on making me a vegetarian. As Jacob can attest, I largely continue to eat meat due to a degree of compartmentalization that I would not allow for other lifestyle choices. I comfort myself by remembering that humans are omnivores; meat provides protein; it is good; and mostly, I’ve always (asside from a few seasons of Lent and a period of nearly lunatic food aversion) eaten it. But A) I’m not sure I’m truly convinced that meat per se is all that fundamental to my diet and B) Can I really justify supporting a practice that hits me at a gut level as just wrong because the result tastes good?
Dammit all for making me go and think about it! The jury is out so long as I can excuse myself with: “I am pregnant, so this is a bad time to alter my eating habits.”