Eating Animals and Living Green?

Jonathan Safran Foer appeared on the Colbert Repor this week and shared his findings (that most of us already know, at least subconsciously) that 99% of the meat produced in the US on farms is done in inhumane ways and that we're polluting our bodies by eating tortured flesh. His new book "Eating Animals" discusses the details of his journey to these farms collecting data and insight. Now I do occasionally eat meat and this isn't a rant about becoming a pure vegan, maybe just considering what's happening, being aware. Staunch meat lovers will enjoy the Colbert episode where Steven offers Jonathan bacon and then uses a strip as a bookmark in his book.

I found one of the more interesting points to be that most of the turkeys used for meat are now so far off of an evolutionary track that they cannot reproduce naturally. Their breasts are so big that they just can't do it, physically... The timing on this interview and this interesting fact was impeccable because just hours earlier on the TV show Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe was helping to artificially inseminate and fertilize turkey eggs. Yep, it's a dirty job alright and it's important to know what's going into our bodies.

A big part of living green is putting clean and sustainable food into our bodies, it's a quickly growing area of interest with farmers markets springing up across the nation and drawing record crowds. Check out Eating Animals and keep your eye out for reruns of Dirty Jobs and Colbert if you missed it. Check out an interview with Jonathan Safran Foer below to learn more about his book and his ideas.