Same old, same old when encountering militant meaties
If TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall stuck to the mission of trying to persuade meat-eaters to eat only ethically-raised animals and even keep their own livestock for the table, reared well and allowed to live natural happy lives before being humanely killed, then this topic on the River Cottage forums wouldn’t, perhaps, have become so heated. Conscientious meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans alike can at least surely unite behind such an aim. The less suffering there is, the better.
Unfortunately, though, while I am 100 per cent behind Hugh’s Chicken Out campaign, it irritates me a bit that Hugh is not only an evangelist for the ethical raising and killing of animals, but also, it really seems, for the consumption of meat by just about everyone. He has said, for example, that if you’re going to keep chickens in the garden for their eggs, then why not eat the chickens as well?
tags: animal cruelty, flame-baiting, food ethics, forums, herbivores, meat-eaters, meaties, militancy, omnivores, spiritual beliefs, trolling, TV chefs, vegetarians, veggiesDelia Smith’s slum cookery proves too much to stomach
It was 15 minutes into Delia Smith’s new cooking show before she chopped so much as a leek, apparently. I didn’t watch owing to the fact that I now consider the hugely popular cook to have sold out, praising junk food, arguing in favour of intensive, unnatural, and inherently cruel farming methods while dissing the very notion of organic food. She seems to think to maintain her former status as the UK’s number one TV chef she has to come out in support of the frozen oven chip and other nasty food products designed for those who won’t make time for real food.
tags: additives, Delia Smith, fast food, food ethics, intensive farming, junk food, organic
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