Red, White, and Bleu: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
Why is it considered entertainment when a predator kills another animal in a wild-life film, Fearnley-Whittingstall wonders, "whereas the final moments of human predation of our farmed livestock are considered too disturbing and shameful to be made available even for information."
The reader understands the point. Meat comes from an animal--a banal connection that has been obscured by the way supermarkets prepare and present our food--and the animal has to be killed. If you fear the sight of a carcass, you shouldn't be eating from it.
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