Book Discussion: The Way We Eat

August 6, 2006

What: Book Discussion: The Way We Eat : Why Our Food Choices Matter

Where: SF (Maggie Mudd)

When: 8/20/06 Sunday, 3:00 pm

Host: Compassionate Living Program

From Publishers Weekly

Ethicist Singer and co-author Mason (Animal Factories) document corporate

deception, widespread waste and desensitization to inhumane practices in

this consideration of ethical eating. The authors examine three families'

grocery-buying habits and the motivations behind those choices. One woman

says she's " absorbed in my life and my family...and I don't think very

much

about the welfare of the meat I'm eating, " while a wealthier husband and

wife mull the virtues of " triple certified " coffee, buying local and

avoiding chocolate harvested by child slave labor, though " no one seems to

be pondering that as they eat. " In investigating food production conditions,

the authors' first-hand experiences alternate between horror and comedy,

from slaughterhouses to artificial turkey-insemination ( " the hardest,

fastest, dirtiest, most disgusting, worst-paid work " ). This

given equal consideration, though the reader finishes the book agreeing with

the authors' conclusion that " America's food industry seeks to keep

Americans in the dark about the ethical components of their food choices. "

A

no-holds-barred treatise on ethical consumption, this is an important read

for those concerned with the long, frightening trip between farm and plate.

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