Jimmu's blog

As you all know, I love my meat, but I love it lean and clean. Much debate has been going since who knows when. Humanization of animals have left us living in a society where farms rescuing amputated farm animals are seen as heros and giving prozac to your dog or cat is the norm. Don’t get me started, the whole issue is beyond ridiculous. The latest article in the New York Times magazine almost made me threw up. Anyhow, for the ones that understand nature and understand the equilibrium of the food chain, a wonderful book The Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend

“At last, the perfect book for people who would like to eat meat but have moral, ethical, or health concerns about doing so. Catherine Friend loves animals but eats meat and gives a thoughtful, personal, clear-eyed perspective on how to do both, humanely and sustainably.” —Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York, University, author of What to Eat.

As for the NYTimes Magazine article, at least the moral of it was well written:

“Dodman’s theory, essentially, is that the causes of mood disorders and obsessions in humans and our pets aren’t so different — faulty genetics, dreary environments. Whether cubicle- or cage-bound, we get too little exercise; we don’t hunt, run or play enough to produce naturally mood-elevating neurochemicals. Strangely enough, I had already heard this theory — from a pharmaceutical company executive who, for obvious business reasons, didn’t want to be named. “All of the behavioral issues that we have created in ourselves, we are now creating in our pets because they live in the same unhealthy environments that we do,” he said. “That’s why there is a market for these drugs.”