Here's something I've been meaning to write about for a while
WTF is up with the foodie/hipster obsession with bacon? Bacon-wrapped everything. Bacon ice cream. Chocolate covered bacon. The bacon department at Archie McPhee. Bacon Flickr streams. Bacon blogs.
OK, I get it -- bacon is tasty (at least I think it is. I haven't actually eaten any in over 30 years). But tasty or not, how much smoked, crispy hog fat can a person actually eat? Doesn't it give you, like, zits? And heartburn? And how about the tremendous moral and literal cesspool that is modern pig farming? If you don't care about cruelty to animals or the environmental impact of giant shit-filled lagoons, how about MRSA? Saucer-sized, antibiotic-resistant skin lesions, people. That's what factory farming hath wrought.
There seems to be a parallel obsession with foie gras. It's like there is something cool about not giving a shit about your health, or cruelty to animals, or the environment. I'm so hip and edgy! Serve me up some more tasty animal fat!
Whatever happened to, y'know, barebacking? Or clove cigarettes? Isn't there some other edgy, self destructive thing you could do? Ride your motorcycle without a helmet, or something. There's a tremendous need for organ donors.
OK, I get it -- bacon is tasty (at least I think it is. I haven't actually eaten any in over 30 years). But tasty or not, how much smoked, crispy hog fat can a person actually eat? Doesn't it give you, like, zits? And heartburn? And how about the tremendous moral and literal cesspool that is modern pig farming? If you don't care about cruelty to animals or the environmental impact of giant shit-filled lagoons, how about MRSA? Saucer-sized, antibiotic-resistant skin lesions, people. That's what factory farming hath wrought.
There seems to be a parallel obsession with foie gras. It's like there is something cool about not giving a shit about your health, or cruelty to animals, or the environment. I'm so hip and edgy! Serve me up some more tasty animal fat!
Whatever happened to, y'know, barebacking? Or clove cigarettes? Isn't there some other edgy, self destructive thing you could do? Ride your motorcycle without a helmet, or something. There's a tremendous need for organ donors.