Documents the author's short-term adoption of a vegetarian lifestyle and her subsequent search for a life that would enable her to eat meat with a clear conscience, which was marked by her interviews with meat producers from a variety of cultures.
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In 2003, journalist Susan Bourette worked undercover at a slaughterhouse in order to write an expose of the meat processing industry. Horrified by what she saw, Susan resolved to go completely vegetarian. She lasted only five weeks and thirty-seven hours.Dissatisfied with tofu and lentils, longing for a bacon cheeseburger, Bourette wondered, isn't there a way to have my meat and a clear conscience too? So began her quest for the perfect meat. With a reporter's eye and a carnivore's appetite, Bourette takes readers behind the bucolic facade of the famous Blue Hill farm, north of New York City; on a long, hot cattle drive at a Texas ranch, a whale hunt with the Inuit in Canada, and a Canadian moose hunt; and behind the counter in a Greenwich Village butcher shop. Humorous yet authoritative, Meat: A Love Story celebrates the deliciousness of meat and the lives of the dedicated professionals who hunt, raise, and cook it - and most important, the delights of being a compassionate carnivore.
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