The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:15:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Have Some Bacon! You and I, We Are Going to Die http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/have-some-bacon-you-and-i-we-are-going-to-die http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/have-some-bacon-you-and-i-we-are-going-to-die#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:15:35 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/have-some-bacon-you-and-i-we-are-going-to-die EAT MY BUNNYThe New Yorker gets mail about its review of Jonathan Safran Foer's vegetarian book. Including someone who said he was writing from the parking lot of a slaughterhouse: "I wonder if Foer has ever visited, or considered the impact of, a thousand-acre soybean monoculture. We have demanded cheap food, and so we have received cheap, destructive food production. Second, vegetarian moralism denies an essential fact of living: death. Everything dies, and not always in its due time." The great beyond eagerly waits for all forms of meat, including the writing kind of meat!

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]]> EAT MY BUNNYThe New Yorker gets mail about its review of Jonathan Safran Foer's vegetarian book. Including someone who said he was writing from the parking lot of a slaughterhouse: "I wonder if Foer has ever visited, or considered the impact of, a thousand-acre soybean monoculture. We have demanded cheap food, and so we have received cheap, destructive food production. Second, vegetarian moralism denies an essential fact of living: death. Everything dies, and not always in its due time." The great beyond eagerly waits for all forms of meat, including the writing kind of meat!

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