The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil by Maya Shetreat-Klein

Author:Maya Shetreat-Klein [Shetreat-Klein, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2016-01-25T23:00:00+00:00

A Happy Meal

Aside from the ethical dilemmas of eating mistreated animals, meat from stressed or sick animals doesn’t taste as good as humanely raised meat. When cattle go to slaughter, they may have a long, cramped ride from the farm and may be kept for days in an uncomfortable lot with stressful sounds, sights, and smells, without food or drink. Their trip to the slaughter floor may be frightening. Even industry knows a deeply stressed animal will have tough “dark meat” due to surges of adrenaline and cortisol in its system. We eat these elevated stress hormones from slaughter when we eat its meat, literally ingesting its stress.27

Humans inhabit the same hormonal, microbial, and spiritual terrain as the animals we eat. What we do to them, we do to ourselves. What they become, we become. Whether we consciously know it, what happens to them also happens to us. We incorporate our ethics into our bodies and our children’s bodies. When an animal lives and dies horribly, we taste it. When it lives and dies peacefully, we taste that, too. By restricting yourself to eating animals that have been raised humanely and treated well from the beginning to the end of life, you are supporting not just a compassionate and healthier system for animals, but healthier children.

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