{"id":6459,"date":"2009-11-19T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2009-11-19T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:03:25","slug":"moo-moo-moo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6459","title":{"rendered":"Moo. Moo? Moo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new book about our Carnivorousness<sup>TM<\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2009\/11\/13\/DI2009111303078.html?hpid=talkbox1\"><em>Eating Animals<\/em> is an exploration<\/a> of what we eat and why, and how what we  eat affects our lives and the environment. Inspired by his impending fatherhood  and the responsibility of making dietary choices for his child, Foer set out to  discover what exactly meat is, how it gets to our tables, and how we define  what&#8217;s acceptable to consume and what isn&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Acceptable to consume?<\/p>\n<p>I will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghbluesteak.com\/about.html\">Pittsburgh Blue<\/a> Saturday night celebrating the Audacity of\u00a0 Carnivoracity<sup>TM<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>It brings to mind something I read somewhere else this week:<\/p>\n<p><em>If God didn&#8217;t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A quick Google informs that Homer Simpson, a regular SITD reader,\u00a0 may have first uttered the query.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new book about our CarnivorousnessTM Eating Animals is an exploration of what we eat and why, and how what we eat affects our lives and the environment. Inspired by his impending fatherhood and the responsibility of making dietary choices for his child, Foer set out to discover what exactly meat is, how it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6465,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}