Confessions of a Carnivore

The necessary sin of eating produces tension between the mind's prudery and the body's savagery.

open quote Food is not merely the fuel we put in our body, food is our body. Every atom in this moving breathing edifice called me was looted from other existences, through the food that I, or while I was in the womb my mother, ate. My living tissues are compacted of bits of the dead, my muscles were once cows' muscles, my eyeballs were carrots. close quote

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