Sasha Chapin (@sashachapin): "In case anyone’s curious, my dietary approach is basically the one advocated in the article. I try to steer away from factory-farmed meat period, and have more flexibility around beef only, because it’s much less horrible than chicken and pork factory farming. I buy a fair amoun…"

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The curmudgeon contrarian side of me loves how Kat Woods spent time in one of the most vegan and polyamorous subcultures and now loudly thumps the omnivorous monog drum at length. Anyway: my view on veganism was highly colored by the following event. Someone close to me was vegan for years and became progressively more moody, sleep got w… In case anyone’s curious, my dietary approach is basically the one advocated in the article. I try to steer away from factory-farmed meat period, and have more flexibility around beef only, because it’s much less horrible than chicken and pork factory farming. I buy a fair amount of nicely treated cow. I make a recurring donation to an effective anti-factory farming charity. I am “dinner party omnivorous,” meaning that if somebody makes me anything, I’ll eat it, and I’ll make exceptions if I’m traveling and have an opportunity for a hard-to-duplicate culinary experience. I don’t think there’s a perfect set of tradeoffs but I’m happy with this one. Man

In case anyone’s curious, my dietary approach is basically the one advocated in the article. I try to steer away from factory-farmed meat period, and have more flexibility around beef only, because it’s much less horrible than chicken and pork factory farming. I buy a fair amount of nicely treated cow. I make a recurring donation to an effective anti-factory farming charity. I am “dinner party omnivorous,” meaning that if somebody makes me anything, I’ll eat it, and I’ll make exceptions if I’m traveling and have an opportunity for a hard-to-duplicate culinary experience. I don’t think…

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