Very easy to understand - excellent.
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Love the enthusiastic style of this chef. Here's a guy who throws himself into his food with abandon and humour!!
Chorizo and bagel breakfast definitely on the menu for me this weekend.

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This book contained so many inaccuracies that I don't know where to start. You make so many assumptions, not because they are correct, but because they help your argument, that it's hard to pick out any facts, if indeed you have included any.

Not only do you ignore the basic facts of the situation, you go off on tangents to prove your point, tangents that are neither relevant, nor prove your argument.

You suggest that if we didn't eat sheep they would all die anyway, from disease, and because they would fight with each other. While it is true that they are mostly farmed in the country, it's also true that they have made it this far, living happily without us controlling and farming them for thousands of years, and they did it without dying from disease, or the odd fight.

You say that if everyone was a vegetarian up to 99% of all farm animals would die out, how would this work? We would still use farm animals for milk, for eggs, for wool. There obviously wouldn’t be so many of them, as we wouldn’t intensively farm them as much as we do now. Arguably the animals we did have would be better looked after, because there would be less of them, and we wouldn’t have to employ the extreme techniques we currently use to make then grow so quickly, so they are ready to be eaten so quickly.

You also imply that some vegetarians would argue that human farming is a good idea, as it would reduce disease. Where did you get this idea from?

Humans breeding and killing animals for food are not positively encouraging evolution, as you have suggested. Evolution should be a natural process where the actions and requirements of the animal, combined with the environmental variables, shape the future that species, either in a positive way if they flourish, or a negative way if their numbers decrease, and they die out. I’m not saying it’s a good thing to let animals die out, it isn’t, and we should do what we can to keep every species of animal alive, I just don’t think that farming an animal for food has anything to do with its evolution.

Saying that we have evolved to eat meat is also not true. My blood type is A-, which evolved in Asia and the Middle East, where we went from a hunter gather type of lifestyle to one where agriculture and animal domestication were common. We changed our diet and lifestyle to one where communities grew crops and where grains were eaten, creating a change of digestive tracts and immune systems, a change that allowed us to better absorb cultivated grains and other agricultural products.

People with blood type A are naturally better suited to eat a vegetarian diet, and not as you suggest in your blanket argument, meat.

There are many reasons people become vegetarians, health reasons, to save animals, ethical values, cost, social and religious beliefs, or because they don't actually like meat, all of which are good reasons not to eat it.

Yes, we have to think about the food chain, make sure we are making the right choices on where our food comes from, meat or otherwise. But it doesn't mean that we all need to start eating every part of every animal.

It means choosing the right food, keeping transport of those foods to a minimum, and making positive health and ethical decisions on what we eat.
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