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Key Phrases: primal diet, antler envy, prime meat market, Maple Leaf, North America, New York (more...)
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Meat is the new black, declares Toronto-based journalist Bourette at the onset. She became a vegetarian after having once worked four days at a meatpacking plant for less than $10 an hour before disclosing herself as a reporter. Vegetarianism lasted less than six weeks before she resolved to find meat she felt good about eating. Her quest comprises the narrative's bulk and takes her from an old-fashioned Greenwich Village meat-shop butchering tutorial to the Inupiat whale blubber harvest. In Alaska, Bourette fathoms the relationship between meat and its provenance, and teases that out in subsequent chapters describing such topics as the workings of a Texas cattle ranch and moose-hunting season in Newfoundland. Throughout, she covers the broader subject of meat, including the history of American beef and its subcultures and controversies such as the impact of agribusiness and climate change on ranchers. The narrative moves swiftly and broadly at the gain of historical and cultural perspective but at the expense of well-thought-out conclusions and scene development so that the actual experience of eating meat often gets the shortest shrift. (May)
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Canadian journalist Bourette goes briefly undercover in a pork-processing facility where she learns more than she wants to about how an industrial pig slaughterhouse really does function and what it takes to get her mom’s pork roast from farm to table. To further her understanding of people’s relationship to meat eating, Bourette travels to an Inupiat settlement in Canada’s Arctic region to witness whale hunting. Her affection for the hardy people she encounters doesn’t overcome her aversion to blubber, which she finds completely indigestible. Bourette explores an environmentally aware ranch that prides itself on organic and humane cattle raising. At Newfoundland’s Tuckamore Lodge, she encounters a surprisingly socially diverse group of dedicated hunters who hunt both for sport and for sustenance. At the periphery of the carnivorous spectrum, she meets up with advocates of the “Primal Diet,” who find raw meat just the ticket. --Mark Knoblauch
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 15, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0399154868
  • ISBN-13: 978-0399154867
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #713,870 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mouth-watering but thought-provoking, June 4, 2008
I enjoyed this immensely. Like the author, I tried a vegetarian diet as an act of conscience several times but I have to admit I never felt worse ... even when I tried to follow the guidelines. Bourette's Meat puts meat-eating in North America in a cultural and historical context. It's not a screed against meat-eating though it's critical of the corporate meat industry. (The author's experiences working in a meat plant might have you skipping pork loins for some time.) Bourette's Meat: A Love Story is a call out to meat-eaters--a challenge not to give up meat but rather to eat better meats, to understand and value the origins of the meat on their tables. Bourette goes from cattle ranch and the Rockefellers' organic farm to the shop of a Manhattan celeb-butcher and a trendy butchering class. The raw-meat-eating cult has to be read to be believed--in Aspen of all places. The author went to end of the earth--on an ice floe for a whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska is just about the end of the earth--to find out why we eat meat, what meat means to us, and how we should eat it. It's pretty filling. It will stick to your ribs and stick in your mind long after you read it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Seeing is Believing, February 4, 2009
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I raise grass fed beef cattle along with pastured chickens and hogs to supply my family and a network of friends with meat and eggs so nothing in this book surprised me. Five years ago when I lived in the suburbs I ate my share of McD's BK and packaged meat from the supermarket. The difference between the meat I eat now and the stuff I used to put into my system are like day and night. I've seen my family become healthier, more energetic and become skeptical of any meat they do not personally "know" while it is still on the hoof.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Meat: It's What's For Dinner (But Do You Know Why?), November 16, 2008
For people who adore low-carb living, this book sounds like a dream come true with a "love story" about one of the very staples of a low-carb diet. But investigative journalist Susan Bourette wanted to use this book to give people more of a reality check about the meat they are putting in their mouths so they can better appreciate not just the nourishment they are getting from it, but also the process it took to get it on your plate to begin with.

Going undercover and making the rounds through the meat industry over the course of a year, Bourette shines the light on many of the problems associated with meat-making that are well-documented in the many news headlines about Mad Cow Disease, E. Coli, and just about everything from those animal rights wacko groups. But she also grew to have a greater appreciation for how healthy meat can be in your diet when the animals are treated well, given the proper diet of grass in the case of cows, and not tampered with artificially.

In the end, she grew a deep appreciation for meat that she never thought about before and departed those lessons for all of us to enjoy. Whether you are a devout vegetarian and meat-eating maniac, you'll find something in this book that will give you an even greater appreciation for this basic of all foods.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Meat Love story
Easy read and thought provoking but needs to be taken with a grain of salt. The science in some areas a little weak.
Published 1 month ago by Ronn Houtz

1.0 out of 5 stars great premise and dust cover
I received this book as a gift and was kind of excited after reading the dust cover. Unfortunately that excitement didn't last long into the reading. Read more
Published 5 months ago by jason

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but what about that not-so-subtle anti-meat motive?
The premise of this book is interesting: Follow along as the author goes on a moose hunt, eats whale blubber, works on the kill floor of a pig-processing plant, visit a cattle... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Alesia

4.0 out of 5 stars A good first step in having one's meat and being proud of it too...
I have dear friends (in Kansas City, of all places...home of great steaks) who have been vegetarians for 30 years, partly due to the horrors of how our society turns animals into... Read more
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