Eat Whatever The Hell You Want — Part 6

Eating Pets, Butchering Pigs and Vegan Absolutism, a Story About Meat.

Gavin Wren
6 min readJun 29, 2018
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Continued from Part 5 — ‘Rural Meat vs Urban Vegan’ — found here

The majority of the UK population don’t care where their meat comes from, as long as it’s cheap. The average UK shopper buys food based on price, not quality. Many of you probably understand the issues around meat, therefore I’m preaching to the converted and these very words are lost in the foodie bubble of “we need to do this” and “we must to do that”. Blah blah, bloody blah.

Is my exploration of meat, of being an ‘ethical carnivore’ little more than a bourgeouis hobbyist interest for the middle classes?

Louise Gray’s book of the same name took a far greater leap into this world than I have been able to, a fascinating and beautifully written journey, yet, as with my own investigations, it leaves me wondering on a larger scale, how does any of this change the society we live in?

It adds to the conversation of woke foodies, but as the marginal sales figures of high welfare products such as organic show, the 95th percentile of food buyers are not listening or reading, they simply could not give a damn.

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