Reading for Tues. 2/23

In Chapters 16 and 17, Pollan writes about what the true definition of Omnivore is, both in a literal and metaphorical sense. People normally associate the need to eat both meat and vegetables just human life, without recognizing how their meat and/or vegetables got to their plate. As humans, we need both the luscious nutrients from greens, as well as the fatty acids and proteins contained in meat. Is it ethically or morally wrong to eat meat? I would like to believe no. We have been eating meat since the dawn of human existence, and no one has fussed about it since to the extent we are now.
Most people when they eat a hamburger, they have no idea at all where that meat came from, be it a healthy cow on a pasture or a cow cramped on a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (just the name is terrifying, let alone what they do there). Should we be referring to our farming as an “operation” of any sort? Sounds significantly underhanded to me that we are hiding these terms, although if we were to hear about them, they would be referred to by a more euphemistic term such as “natural feed lot”…