chick-fil-a
Having Chick-Fil-A for lunch today. They make the best fried chicken sandwich. I get cravings for fried chicken. When I eat any meat item, I get this feeling of solemn appreciation, a thanksgiving in a non-genocidal way. It's really those waffle fries that I'm after today.
i was vegetarian for 5 yrs, so i have vegetarian sensibilities. it was mostly a moratorium until i could sort out a cohesive dietary philosophy. my parents always gave me a hard time about it, even though i would eat seafood when with them. however, even fishing is not without consequences when species are depleted. sustainability is key. for example, i'm opposed to cattle raising, because of the detrimental wastefulness it entails (usage of land, water, grains and the pollution it generates). I'm not opposed hunting seasons, since they target surplus that had not been farm-raised. Tangent -- i keep in mind how part of the U.S. strategy to eliminate Native American populations of the West was to kill off all the bison. if it's a decision between consuming prepared meat vs. letting it go in the trash, i have no shame about being a scavenger. i accept my supervisor's lunch leftovers when offered, and i ask to eat scraps off friends' plates at restaurants when they're done eating. i'm pretty much always hungry (fast metabolism i guess), so i'm usually the one at the table who says "are you going to eat that? i'll take it if you don't want it"! Low class I know, but I'm still hungry. It makes my friend Kp shudder; she was a DEB. Her second coming out, the one in the non-debutante sense, did not go over so well with her mom.
4 years ago, the day after XMas, one of our neighbors passed away. His was the first funeral I attended. Afterwards my family went to Chick-Fil-A drive-thru.
I got a chicken sandwich, closing 5 years of vegetarianism (moratorium until i could formulate a cohesive dietary philosophy). My refusal to eat meat was constant a source of contention with my family. They thought they had won, but I have not assimilated to capitalist drive for reckless consumerism.
As the cute cows in the Chick-Fil-A ads say -- don't eat beef, eat chikin instead, because of the serious impacts of the beef industry on the oppression of people. Right, so those adorable cows with bad spelling don't actually say all that. Consuming less meat is a form of resisting patriarchy, not limited to the narrow scope of pro animal rights white middle class kids, who fail to see the worldwide socioeconomic implications of meat producing industry.
Of the popular kinds of livestock raised for food (beef, lamb, pork, turkey, etc), broiler chickens cause the least impact when comparing pound for pound. We can calculate the cost in raw materials to raise a single cow or a single chicken, now let's apply that to the number of cows and chickens being raised. I'm looking for data that quantifies the scale regionally and worldwide. What is the raw count and the population ratio of cows to chickens?
I really like this touching story/review of Chick-Fil-A in remembrance of the author's grandmother.
i was vegetarian for 5 yrs, so i have vegetarian sensibilities. it was mostly a moratorium until i could sort out a cohesive dietary philosophy. my parents always gave me a hard time about it, even though i would eat seafood when with them. however, even fishing is not without consequences when species are depleted. sustainability is key. for example, i'm opposed to cattle raising, because of the detrimental wastefulness it entails (usage of land, water, grains and the pollution it generates). I'm not opposed hunting seasons, since they target surplus that had not been farm-raised. Tangent -- i keep in mind how part of the U.S. strategy to eliminate Native American populations of the West was to kill off all the bison. if it's a decision between consuming prepared meat vs. letting it go in the trash, i have no shame about being a scavenger. i accept my supervisor's lunch leftovers when offered, and i ask to eat scraps off friends' plates at restaurants when they're done eating. i'm pretty much always hungry (fast metabolism i guess), so i'm usually the one at the table who says "are you going to eat that? i'll take it if you don't want it"! Low class I know, but I'm still hungry. It makes my friend Kp shudder; she was a DEB. Her second coming out, the one in the non-debutante sense, did not go over so well with her mom.
4 years ago, the day after XMas, one of our neighbors passed away. His was the first funeral I attended. Afterwards my family went to Chick-Fil-A drive-thru.
I got a chicken sandwich, closing 5 years of vegetarianism (moratorium until i could formulate a cohesive dietary philosophy). My refusal to eat meat was constant a source of contention with my family. They thought they had won, but I have not assimilated to capitalist drive for reckless consumerism.
As the cute cows in the Chick-Fil-A ads say -- don't eat beef, eat chikin instead, because of the serious impacts of the beef industry on the oppression of people. Right, so those adorable cows with bad spelling don't actually say all that. Consuming less meat is a form of resisting patriarchy, not limited to the narrow scope of pro animal rights white middle class kids, who fail to see the worldwide socioeconomic implications of meat producing industry.
Of the popular kinds of livestock raised for food (beef, lamb, pork, turkey, etc), broiler chickens cause the least impact when comparing pound for pound. We can calculate the cost in raw materials to raise a single cow or a single chicken, now let's apply that to the number of cows and chickens being raised. I'm looking for data that quantifies the scale regionally and worldwide. What is the raw count and the population ratio of cows to chickens?
I really like this touching story/review of Chick-Fil-A in remembrance of the author's grandmother.