Clutching Forks and Knives, to Eat Their Bacon

The United States is having a bit of a shock about its din-dins at the moment. Through their own bad behaviour, a few workers at a Westland/Hallmark plant in Chino, California have accidentally brought some attention to the kind of thing that the food industry does not want you to think about. The planet is graced with few things more irritating than self-righteous hippies, so I am not usually aggressive or militant about my mostly vegetarian diet (I do still eat eggs, dairy, and the occasional piece of fish). I figure it's your own business if you want to eat the muscles of animals that have been pumped full of drugs, fed unnatural foods that upset their digestive systems, trucked ridiculously long distances, and potentially been rolled in feces before slaughter. But aside from using far more water and calories to bring to market than other foods do, meat is associated with some pretty terrible practices. When I take all that into consideration, I will take my $1.29 bag of lentils, thanks very much.