Updated: Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand

My favorite animal is steak.

Fran Lebowitz

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer,

Small quantities of processed meat such as bacon, sausages or salami can increase the likelihood of dying early by a fifth, researchers from Harvard School of Medicine found. Eating steak increases the risk of early death by 12%.

The study found that cutting the amount of red meat in peoples’ diets to 1.5 ounces (42 grams) a day, equivalent to one large steak a week, could prevent almost one in 10 early deaths in men and one in 13 in women.

www.telegraph.co.uk

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Ted Nugent

Update:  See Washington's Blog