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Should I Eat Meat?
I’m having an existential crisis.
The foundations of my world are being rocked to their core.
I’ve been pondering the question “should I eat meat?”
The Background.
The best way to describe my diet is flexitarian. I eat everything, but my diet at home is largely vegetarian, I rarely ever cook meat. When I try out new recipes from other people, they are mainly vegetarian and the new recipes which I create are almost exclusively vegetarian (hence my blog — lepetitoeuf.com — being 99% vegetarian).
Despite this largely vegetarian lifestyle, I have no underlying urge to become a full-blown vegetarian, because some of my favourite dishes involve meat. I’m an absolute sucker for raw meat and fish and start salivating at the thought of a sashimi platter or steak tartare.
What has happened is that I’ve become obsessed with the moral implications of eating meat. I recently came across the fact that some kids don’t understand that chicken nuggets come from chickens, or that beef burgers come from beefs. They are completely disconnected from the food chain, meaning they don’t realise these animals must be killed, chopped up and reformed to create the products which go into their gobs every day.
