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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.

Michael Pollan:

It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, fries and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage -- indeed, in the long sweep of history, this represents a remarkable achievement.

On the the American Family Association's boycott of McDonald's over its decision "not to remain neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality" Stewart says, "This is the first time you realized McDonald's was gay? Do you have a TV? Have you ever seen their ads?!"