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joe_del's review
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cursing
Minor: Police brutality, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Racism, Medical trauma, Genocide, Medical content, and Toxic relationship
rachbake's review
4.5
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
growplantsreadbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Minor: Eating disorder and Vomit
foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Police brutality, Racism, Excrement, Grief, and Cancer
jonna_doucette's review
1.5
For its faults, of which there are many (see: Loftus’s a-hole choice to flout lock-down and travel/research this book during the height of the pandemic), this book had the makings of something better that was lost along the roadside of Loftus’s journey. A travelogue? Yeah. A culinary history? Maybe... if you squint. Capitalist critique? Certainly not. Unfortunately, for the small amount of ink Loftus spares for actually interesting, prescient topics, like industrial safety standards for slaughter houses, meatpackers, and the animals we farm for food, or ethnocentrism within competitive eating, she wastes twice as many pages playing at being an insecure girl next door from Bah-ston and hoping we’ll accept her anyways, like so many of the humble, working-class delicacies she’s sampled across our great country.
For anyone interested in actual meat-centered food history/commentary, I suggest the following:
Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat
The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
Salted and Cured: Savoring the Culture, Heritage, and Flavor of America's Preserved Meats
Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat
Graphic: Cursing and Excrement
Moderate: Eating disorder and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, and Animal death
theabee's review
4.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Eating disorder
marieee_greeen's review
4.25
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Animal death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, Cancer, and Cursing
tiffanyg's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Excrement, Eating disorder, Xenophobia, and Animal death
jourdanicus's review against another edition
5.0
Yeah, idk, it was good. Interesting. If you like "micro histories" you'll like this. If you're vegan you will either love this or hate it. You'll definitely like it if you like podcasts. Being narrated by the author makes the audiobook even better!
Re: content warnings - they are listed in the beginning of the book so that's helpful if I missed some here.
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Racism, Animal death, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Alcohol, Police brutality, Colonisation, Eating disorder, and Stalking
teafrog's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty