Tag: Susan Bourette

Susan Bourette is a compassionate omnivore married to a 30-year vegetarian. In her new book, Meat: A Love Story Bourette serves up an untraditional romance. It’s a journalist’s account of how she rediscovered a conscientious love for meat after gutting and packing animals during an undercover factory investigation.

Bourette had delved into vegetarianism for the same reasons many others have—idealistic, thrifty college days, proving to mom life can be complete without pot roasts, the healthy and glowing vegetarian friend, the vegetarian spouse, nausea-inducing images of factory farms—but she always came back to meat because of its wonderful flavor and invigorating qualities. So, in an effort to appease her conscience and love for meat, Bourette tours through ranches across the country, Canadian moose-hunts, whale-hunts with Inuits and the butcheries of Toronto and Greenwich Village in search of conscientious meat-eating. She does so successfully while creating space for other omnivores to cultivate conscientious diets as well.