The Butcher And The Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through A World Of Men, Meat, And Moral Crisis (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
I've read and loved Tara Austen Weaver's blog for a few years now. It was about time I read her memoir The Butcher and the Vegetarian. Weaver is an engaging writer and while I knew some of her story from her blog, I was curious about her journey from vegetarian to carnivore, as well as the impact of her diet on her health. I loved reading about her interactions with butchers, meat-lovers, steak aficionados, and sausage makers, as well as seeing whether her foray with meat would last. Looking forward to whatever is next by her! Gross gross EW gross. NO. Just..no. I have no idea but I thought this was going to be a love story LOL SPOILER ITS NOT. Its about an over-weight woman who quickly grabs the excuse to be come a 'full-fleged meat eater' once a doctor gives her the idea...GIVE ME A BREAK! If your gonna eat meat just do it, don't blame it on doctors or who the eff its 'CAUSE YOU WANT IT. I can't believe I even made it half way through this thing I wanted to throw up so bad. How could she keep eating it!? No self control? Truly believed it would make her thinner? Sometimes people are made to be big! Maybe try taking sugar out first or even try being a vegan but going from being a "mostly vegetarian" to ingesting flesh isn't gonna do anything for ya health wise. I can read/watch books and films on meat and be totally fine but its the way she finds the grossest bits about it and then percedes to still it eat?! If I wasn't completly turned off by meat before this certainly helped. Like she went deep into it with cooking it and seeing the animals being killed GEEEZZZZ-UUSSSS. Ugh I was so disgusted I think even a meat eater would find this to be gross. Anyway I found this to be stomach-turning, disturbing, and infuriating. ENJOYYours truly,A Peskatarian (Who ever said Peskatarians eat birds are full of shit) :D
What do You think about The Butcher And The Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through A World Of Men, Meat, And Moral Crisis (2010)?
Good book about a lifelong vegetarian who has to start eating meat because of health problems.
—hrithika
Interesting, but for me, ultimately unsatisfying.
—Laughdiesyou
