Reading 2/23

The part of the reading that caught my eye the most was at the start of chapter seventeen. Pollan says that "eating meat has become morally problematic." I personally would have to disagree with this, at least in my own experience. Maybe this was caused by the way I was raised or by my diet growing up, but I have never once examined the morals behind what I am about to eat for dinner. For this reason I would have to disagree with Pollan, since I do not see it as problematic at all. I also found it interesting how he brought up the question as to why this (the vegetarian movement) was starting to happen now. As he said, humans have been consuming meat throughout history, and until recently the morals of it had not been in question. He also talks about the double standards held by those that eat meat. He says that even people that eat meat object to hunting, because it involves the killing of an animal. However, any meat that they eat has somehow involved a killing. Either way, the goal of this chapter of The Omnivore's Dilemma was to examine the most controversioal part of our American diets.