Meat

Well, it’s something of a wonder that we are still eating meat at all. Nothing, with the possible exception of class-A drugs and boxing has received such sustained bad publicity as meat. Mad, bad and dangerous to chew. Everything that could go wrong for muscle and sinew has for meat: poisonous cancers, insane, cruel, manipulated, injected, tortured, gross, sad, smelly, colon-clogging, bleeding meat.

Factory-produced meat is a mass of contradictions. It’s seen as being worthlessly cheap while at the same time costing a lot. It’s perceived as man-manufactured when it is actually as natural as you are. Meat is so despised that it is the only material I can think of where the man-made nylon-textured protein material is considered preferable to the real thing.