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'Mindful Carnivores' Examine Origins Of Meat

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The news today is full of the Mediterranean diet, a way of eating that is heavy on olive oil, nuts and seeds, vegetables, and fish and white meats. It has newly tested life-extending powers!

The news is also heavy with more stories of hidden horse meat in the meals in Europe, especially in pre-made lasagne and Bolognese sauce and burgers.

 
Alan Cowell writes in the New York Times:
"For some, the brouhaha reflects unease among consumers who feel double-duped, pressed by economic austerity into buying cheap, ready-made meals while the food chain delivering them is manipulated by shadowy, get-rich-quick suppliers, perhaps even criminal gangs."

 
If you're on the Mediterranean diet, maybe you don't worry so much about where your meat comes from. But what about the rest of us?

 
Leave your comments below, e-mail colin@wnpr.org or Tweet us @wnprcolin.

Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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