Comments on: Six Degrees of Cave-in Bacon http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Carly http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3066 Carly Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:51:37 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3066 The fact that I eat pork confuses the hell out of people. But you have to understand -- I don't eat just any old pig. I have to know the pig. Just like I don't eat cow, chicken or other meat that I don't know the farm and farmers where the animal was raised. My husband is not Jewish, and if I weren't married to him -- I might not eat pork -- but I am and he cures his own bacon and ham in our fridge. We get the pig from our CSA where we have been members for 7 or 8 years. Am I going to eat pork anywhere else -- no. I think it's a deeply personal decision about what kosher means to you and how it relates to your practice. I know that the pork I eat is cleaner than many of the kosher products on the market today. So, I choose to eat it. The fact that I eat pork confuses the hell out of people. But you have to understand — I don’t eat just any old pig. I have to know the pig. Just like I don’t eat cow, chicken or other meat that I don’t know the farm and farmers where the animal was raised.

My husband is not Jewish, and if I weren’t married to him — I might not eat pork — but I am and he cures his own bacon and ham in our fridge. We get the pig from our CSA where we have been members for 7 or 8 years. Am I going to eat pork anywhere else — no.

I think it’s a deeply personal decision about what kosher means to you and how it relates to your practice. I know that the pork I eat is cleaner than many of the kosher products on the market today. So, I choose to eat it.

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3062 Leah Koenig Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:36:24 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3062 This is better than any dramatic movie cliffhanger: Gasp! Will our hero eat the deliciously forbidden treat, or will he find solace in the arms of a nice fruit plate? I can't wait to hear the follow up! This is better than any dramatic movie cliffhanger: Gasp! Will our hero eat the deliciously forbidden treat, or will he find solace in the arms of a nice fruit plate?

I can’t wait to hear the follow up!

]]> By: Rachel http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3061 Rachel Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:06:35 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3061 I wrote a long and, I thought, quite eloquent response to this post, looking at questions of kashrut and ecokashrut, when and how these systems seem to trump one another in the nondenominational Jewish consciousness, and what it might take to integrate them. Then, of course, the comment vanished into the ether. *g* So this time around, I'll just say: excellent post, thanks. I wrote a long and, I thought, quite eloquent response to this post, looking at questions of kashrut and ecokashrut, when and how these systems seem to trump one another in the nondenominational Jewish consciousness, and what it might take to integrate them.

Then, of course, the comment vanished into the ether. *g* So this time around, I’ll just say: excellent post, thanks.

]]> By: Michael Greenberg http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3049 Michael Greenberg Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:29:49 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/six-degrees-of-cave-in-bacon/#comment-3049 Do it! I cured my own bacon (from pork belly and lamb breast) two weeks ago to remarkable effect. And if you feel mixed afterwards, lamb bacon is remarkably delicious. In fact, most who've tasted both prefer the lamb (it was a much better cut, and cured in lemon zest, honey, rosemary, and black pepper). I also recommend to you my mother's "deliciousness" exception: if God didn't want us to eat bacon, why is it so delicious? Do it! I cured my own bacon (from pork belly and lamb breast) two weeks ago to remarkable effect. And if you feel mixed afterwards, lamb bacon is remarkably delicious. In fact, most who’ve tasted both prefer the lamb (it was a much better cut, and cured in lemon zest, honey, rosemary, and black pepper).

I also recommend to you my mother’s “deliciousness” exception: if God didn’t want us to eat bacon, why is it so delicious?

]]>