In this video Jamie Oliver electrocutes a chicken. He then tells the visibly shocked audience:
As far as killing anything's concerned, it's never nice. I was trained to do it, I don't feel particularly good about this. But, I eat chickens, and I'm a chef.
I eat meat. I eat chicken. I agree with Jamie. I'd like to get to a place where we treat animals humanely while they are alive. Sadly we are far, far away from it.
The historian Ann Vileisis documents in Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need To Get It Back an "unspoken covenant of ignorance" between consumers and the food industry:
...we have ended up in the absurd situation today that most of us, as consumers, know very little about what we eat; and, sensing a "dark side" to our food production, many of us don't even want to know.
We need to know. We cannot change what we (willfully?) do not know.
Via Eating Liberally.
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