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New media entry: Back in Rack

9/26/08

EXCERPT:
"It isn't yet politically correct to eat meat, but it is a lot less politically incorrect. The back-to-the-pasture movement is letting carnivores feel good about themselves again. And for that we can thank pioneers like Bill Niman..."

HM ANALYSIS:
The author asserts that meat eating is enjoying a cultural renaissance, that consumption of "humane" meat (which also happens to be "succulent... sturdy and supple") solves the ethical problems associated with industrialized farming, so much so that long-time vegetarians are not only taking up meat eating again, but some of them are now actually raising and killing animals themselves.

In these cynical times, it is more important than ever to realize that behind every profit-making myth, there are one or more myth makers serving a hidden agenda...

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