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How to eat beef
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 11:26 pm on 6/12/2005
Here’s a snippet from It Must Have Been Something I Ate, newly retrieved from loan to a friend and just as much fun to read as it was the first time through. This is the paragraph that, a year and a half ago, got me to eliminate beef from my diet almost completely, except for four times a year when I gorge on it luxuriously. To wit:
Beef is not really good for us, especially fine, fatty, juicy, expensive beef. The environment is certainly not improved by the sheer number of cattle we raise. World hunger will never be solved by our eating so much so high on the food chain. And, according to some feminists, beef-eating is somehow connected with testosterone and the hideous control of human society by guys. But to deny our occasional need for the chewy, bloody, raw, primeval, primordial, ferrous, feral, slightly rotten taste of beef is to deny our very chromosomes, our human inheritance. We should consume beef infrequently, but when we do, we should buy only the most tender, rich, juicy and flavorful beef we can afford, and grill it over wood or charcoal.
Obviously I had to have been exposed previously to lots of ambient info about beef’s health and environmental risks to go over any sort of tipping point when I read this. But still, isn’t it beautiful? (Hey, speaking of tipping points, it’d be wonderful if Malcolm Gladwell’s next book were the halfway measure between his first two, and covered the difference between information that doesn’t make us change our minds yet, and the crucial bit that does.)
June 16th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Mikey
Mike redesigned Gibberish. It looks damn good. Bravo, mike!…
June 22nd, 2005 at 9:52 am
yes i like it too
June 22nd, 2005 at 9:59 am
Thank you!