{"id":1313,"date":"2009-11-16T02:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2009-11-16T02:54:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T06:54:54","slug":"1313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/16\/1313\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT\u2019s \u201cMau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Lantern&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lanternbooks.com\/blog\/entry.php?id=796\">Martin Rowe<\/a>, the Grumpy Vegan found himself muttering under his breath reading Jennifer Schuessler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/15\/books\/review\/Schuessler-t.html\">Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters<\/a>. On the one hand it&#8217;s exciting to see <em>The New York Times<\/em> thinking about serious writing on our relationship with animals but on the other what a ho-hum op ed. The climax is the predictable cliche &#8220;We are what we eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is an animal? What is a human being? It would be tempting to answer with the old truism if it weren&#8217;t so impossibly ambiguous: We are what we eat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No. NO. NO! We&#8217;re not what we eat. We are what we <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Lantern&#8217;s Martin Rowe, the Grumpy Vegan found himself muttering under his breath reading Jennifer Schuessler&#8217;s Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters. On the one hand it&#8217;s exciting to see The New York Times thinking about serious writing on our relationship with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/16\/1313\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","category-thinking","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}