The carnivore's man!festo : eating well, eating responsibly, and eating meat

****One of __The Atlantic__'s Best Food Books of 2014** Fifty ways to be an enlightened carnivore, while taking better care of our planet and ourselves, from the founder of Slow Food USA.** We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, given the destructive forces of the fast-food industry and factory farming, we need to make smart, informed choices about the food we eat and where it comes from. In 50 short chapters, Martins cuts through organize zealotry and the misleading jargon of food labeling to outline realistic steps everyone can take to be part of the sustainable-food movement. With wit, and insight, and no small amount of provocation, THE CARNIVORE'S MANIFESTO is both a revolutionary call to arms and a rollicking good read that will inspire, engage, and challenge anyone interested in the way we eat today. A is for apprentice The $140 turkey To hell with local, eat the best Learn to build a fire Survival of the fattest Commodity vs. quality Slow food is fast food Merchants matter Bessie and Babe, Fluffy and Fido Night of the hunter Têtoir: feed your head Twelve great American têtoirs Give the people what they want Hello, I am a pig Take my ham, please You can't avoid processed food Eat an endangered species Slow business, Part I: Meet me in the middle Don't make ketchup Nose to tail: Let's grind Not-so-candid camera Sleep with your butcher. And maybe your bartender And the truck driver shall inherit the earth Carlo Petrini Sex sells, or for every season there is a meat Let it rot Build a slaughterhouse Slow down Vegetarian, you have blood on your hands! Take back lunch Remember the Whole Earth Catalog? Consider the turkey We answer to a higher authority I am a goat Share the shit Healthy animals don't need medicine National farmer's day Put your money where your mouth is Revolutionaries wanted, inquire within Ted Turner Alphabet soup Don't be a hipster hater I am a cow Slow business, Part II: How to make bread It's the meat Splendor in the tallgrass Letter to a farmer Don't forget to feast A fairy tale In the year 2222. One of The Atlantic 's Best Food Books of 2014 Fifty ways to be an enlightened carnivore, while taking better care of our planet and ourselves, from the founder of Slow Food USA. We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, given the destructive forces of the fast-food industry and factory farming, we need to make smart, informed choices about the food we eat and where it comes from. In 50 short chapters, Martins cuts through organize zealotry and the misleading jargon of food labeling to outline realistic steps everyone can take to be part of the sustainable-food movement. With wit, and insight, and no small amount of provocation, THE CARNIVORE'S MANIFESTO is both a revolutionary call to arms and a rollicking good read that will inspire, engage, and challenge anyone interested in the way we eat today. We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, given the destructive forces of the fast-food industry and factory farming, we need to make smart, informed choices about the food we eat and where it comes from. In 50 short chapters, Martins cuts through organized zealotry and the misleading jargon of food labeling to outline realistic steps everyone can take to be part of the sustainable-food movement. With wit, and insight, and no small amount of provocation, The Carnivore's Manifesto is both a revolutionary call to arms and a rollicking good read that will inspire, engage, and challenge anyone interested in the way we eat today. Describes what meat-eaters can do to make intelligent and informed choices about what they're eating and where it came from, and offers steps anyone can take to become part of the sustainable food movement