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Title: The Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
ISBN: 1600940072
Author:
Catherine Friend
Publicate Date: 2008-04-21
Publish: 2008-04-21
List Price: $24.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: A Steaming Pile of ... Meat
The first subject category assigned for this book by this website and the Library of Congress says it all: Cooking - Meat.
I live on a farm and can tell you that there is no part of killing and eating animals that is kind or compassionate - ever.
If you want to eat meat, do it. But don't pretend that anything else you can do lessens the guilt you should rightfully endure.
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2: the compassionate human
why not just. not buy the book.
and not eat animals?
i think that sounds like a good idea.
and much more compassionate.
As Leo Tolstoy once wrote:
"I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back."
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3: Highly recommend "The Compassionate Carnivore"
I loved this book! While I'm not much of a meat eater, the title caught my eye and am I ever glad. Not only did I have the opportunity to become more educated about sustainability and humane animal treatment, but found a new author to recommend. Catherine Friend is such a great storyteller - one of those gifted people who can write a book that you just don't want to put down.
Her research is thorough but certainly not daunting nor overwhelmingly statistical. Rather, she imparts the disturbing facts of just how most of the food we eat is raised, (mis)handled and eventually ends up in our supermarkets or restaurants. These are facts that so many of us tend to ignore, but really cannot continue to do so. For the good of the earth, our health and well-being, we must become more conscious of one of our most basic and necessary functions: choosing wisely what we eat.
Friend educates the reader about those choices, but, as any good educator, she does it with humor. This is a book that will make you laugh out loud and yet the impact of her message will be with you long after the final chapter.
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4: GREAT Book!
I have chosen a vegetarian lifestyle about two years ago as I researched on my own "factory farms". I find myself defending my choice on numerous occasions to friends and family which has lead me to believe people are quite naive when it comes to food. So what do these people need? Education. Catherine Friend takes exactly that approach in the Compassionate Carnivore. Friend speaks to people who currently eat meat and don't plan on stopping. Friend writes on what it's like inside a factory farm and how a person who chooses to eat meat can choose more wisely by researching where their meat comes from. I am constantly recommending this book to others so they can be more educated on what they are putting into their bodies.
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5: A must read for all carnivores
What a great book! Refreshing, enlightening, entertaining! If only we could get the megafarmers to convert to this line of thinking, what a different world this would be. My hope is that as more people read this book, a movement will be created (and in fact it has already started!) and this change will take deep root in our agricultural practices.
My wife and I, along w/ our 5 kids, moved out of the city a couple years ago and bought a small hobby farm and decided to live a life like that described in this book - and it has made ALL THE DIFFERENCE! We know where our food comes from since we've raised it, we know the animals have been well cared for and treated with great dignity, we know they've been allowed to roam through our pastures and eat grass the way God intended. We've loved them and cared for them from birth through death.
And when their earthly life is over, they provide nurturing sustanance for our large family for many, many months.
In my community, surrounded by large megafarms, I'm only one of a couple such farmers who are living a life that is described by this great book. Perhaps I'll buy a few more copies and do some "evangelizing" to some of the feedlot farmers around here and see if we can't win some converts to this far better way of living! It'll be a Compassionate Carnivore Crusade!!
Thanks, Catherine, for having the courage to write such a book in the face of the current "meat-on-the-cheap" megafarm, feedlot mentality on the one hand AND in the face of the "humans should be herbivores" mentality on the other. I'm recommending your book to all my farming friends and I've bought your other book too, Hit By A Farm!
-Michael Dudek
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