“The Butcher And The Vegetarian” Explores Ethics Of Meat Eating
Written by Vegetarian Star on March 29th, 2010 in Authors, Books, Food & Drink.
The Butcher and the Vegetarian
The Butcher and the Vegetarian by Tara Austen Weaver starts off with every vegetarian’s nightmare.
Although Weaver grew up a health conscious vegetarian in a family that kept “jars of bean sprouts on its windowsill,” she starts to eat meat on the advice of a doctor when she became ill.
Yawn. How many times have you heard that advice from a M.D.?
A butcher gets her hooked on the drug after wrapping up her very first chicken and she progresses to steak, t-bone and other parts from the animal kingdom.
But she can’t do so without constantly ruminating about her decision’s impact on animals and the earth and although she seeks grass fed and free range for her refrigerator, the more she learns about how meat is produced, the more she thinks about going back to tofu.
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April 3rd, 2010 at 8:17 am
I haven’t read this book but according to reviews on Amazon by folks who did, it was an acupuncturist who told her she should eat meat, not an md. Also, by the end of the book she’s on a raw diet, and doesn’t discuss whether she thought including meat in her diet helped her, so I don’t think I’ll bother reading this.