"The Moral Crusade Against Foodies"
"Now for the foodie version. The human animal evolved “with eyes in the front of its head, long legs, fingernails, eyeteeth-so that it could better chase down slower, stupider creatures, kill them, and eat them” (Bourdain, Medium Raw). We have eaten them for so long that meat-eating has shaped our souls (Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma). And after so many millennia of domestication, food animals have become “evolutionarily hard-wired” to depend on us (chef-writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, The River Cottage Meat Book). Every exercise of our hungry power is thus part of the Great Food Chain of Being, with which we must align our morals. Deep down-instinctively if not consciously-the “hardwired” pig understands all this, understands why he has suddenly been dragged before a leering crowd. Just don’t waste any of him afterward; that’s all he asks. Note that the foodies’ pride in eating “nose to tail” is no different from factory-farm boasts of “using everything but the oink.” As if such token frugality could make up for the caloric wastefulness and environmental damage that result from meat farming!"
From this essay. It's not all in that vein, but that's a good passage to start with. The author lays into the sanctimoniousness, dubious morality, elitism, insularity and gluttony of "foodies", a useful counter to their usual sainted status.
From this essay. It's not all in that vein, but that's a good passage to start with. The author lays into the sanctimoniousness, dubious morality, elitism, insularity and gluttony of "foodies", a useful counter to their usual sainted status.