The movie Food Inc. talks about a “curtain” being placed between the consumer and the meat in the grocery store. “The industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you’re eating. Because if you knew, you might not want to eat it,” the narrator says. Michael Pollan and the producers of Food Inc. complain that meat processors won’t let them inside their plants. (Golly, I wonder why?)
I agree that consumers need to know more about the animals they are eating than the label on a styrene package in the grocery store can provide. That’s why I wrote the Houston Press and Dallas Observer cover story Mystery Meats. And that’s why I took a video camera inside the slaughter house and meat cutting room and taped the whole process during the class. If you want to remove the “curtain” between you and the meat you are eating, then take a look.