== Red Meat Does A Body Good = Mark Morford

[madokie]

============= MARK MORFORD'S NOTES & ERRATA =============
SFGate.com - Friday, December 1, 2006


Can you still eat the stuff without having your soul mauled by a giant industrial slaughterhouse? Why sure
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/12/01/notes120106.DTL&nl=fix

Oh, I eat it all right. Not obese heaping daily Midwestern gobs of it and not even weekly macho 24-ounce slabs of it and certainly not even a hint of a globule of the freakishly brown heavily processed fat-laden hormone-injected ultratoxic mystery gunk you find at the 18 million fast-food joints in the nation, but yes, I do indeed occasionally eat beef.

Organic, almost always. Grass-fed, if at all possible. Humanely raised and kindly slaughtered and kissed by the sun and blessed by the sly and cooing angels of gustatory bliss because that's just how I like to deceive myself and I shall admit right here, I almost always enjoy it immensely.

It is, I have to say, a kind of confession. A thing to reveal, fraught and interesting and full of pregnant meanings. Because here's the thing: Eating red meat these days is not, in this part of the country anyway, something presumed or common or all that shouted out. It's a bit of a hot-button topic, even, revealing as all hell; it's got that slightly smoky, delicious taint of the politically incorrect to its fatty drippings.

This all leaps to mind, by the way, after enduring the gauntlet-like drive down the brutal I-5 corridor from San Francisco to SoCal this past Thanksgiving weekend, easily the most loathed and reviled and yet grudgingly beloved concrete conduit in the entire state. And meat is, apparently, a big part of it all. ...

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/12/01/notes120106.DTL&nl=fix

[whistle]

1. Your post reminds me of the scene in the movie "Soylent Green"

...where the young furniture girl Shirl goes to the basement of her master's apartment to buy groceries and when she asks if the clerk remembered, the clerk escorts her to the cooler and displays a barely non-anemic slab of red meat and explains, "Beef Miss Shirl, real beef! Have you ever seen anything like it?"