Chicken Out
Nothing happening at the Stage Door except a constant cold breeze... thank you, smokers, for hanging about with the door wide open virtually all the time!
I've been reading Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's book Meat (which is excellent, and makes me hungry every time I pick it up). There are some lengthy discussions on what it means to eat meat, and the level of responsibility each meat-eater should take for the welfare of the animals killed to provide them with food. It made me realise that the reason I have tried to become vegetarian twice in my life is not because I feel morally opposed to eating meat but because I feel morally opposed to the way that animals are intensively farmed in order to provide that meat. And thanks to the education provided by this book, I now know much more about how to avoid buying intensively farmed meat. Now the only thing is to coin a word for this sort of food choice, so that when people serve me up a nasty factory chicken I can politely decline, just like vegetarians can, without them thinking I am just being awkward or snobby...
If anyone feels the same way, there is an online petition against intensive chicken farming in the UK which can be found here.
I've been reading Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's book Meat (which is excellent, and makes me hungry every time I pick it up). There are some lengthy discussions on what it means to eat meat, and the level of responsibility each meat-eater should take for the welfare of the animals killed to provide them with food. It made me realise that the reason I have tried to become vegetarian twice in my life is not because I feel morally opposed to eating meat but because I feel morally opposed to the way that animals are intensively farmed in order to provide that meat. And thanks to the education provided by this book, I now know much more about how to avoid buying intensively farmed meat. Now the only thing is to coin a word for this sort of food choice, so that when people serve me up a nasty factory chicken I can politely decline, just like vegetarians can, without them thinking I am just being awkward or snobby...
If anyone feels the same way, there is an online petition against intensive chicken farming in the UK which can be found here.