On his regular blog for KCET, Pomona College Environmental Analysis Professor Char Miller explains how the turkey biz became a multi-billion dollar industry, and then the professor reaches an unsettling conclusion:
Because industrialized agriculture has allowed us to break free from nature’s cyclical hold on our appetite, we’ve gone corpulent. We’ve repeatedly skimmed off the fat of the land and slapped it on our bodies … America the Bloated is a direct result of the global conveyor-belt flow of foodstuffs from factory farm to groaning table. We are what (and how often) we eat.
As a salubrious break from our waist-thickening behavior, as a chance to show our gratitude for having survived our gluttony, perhaps this Thanksgiving we should skip the bird and all its trimmings; even forgo the holiday meal. In short: fast.”
