food comma: part food blog, part family cookbook, Eating ethically is not a purity pissing contest, and the more vegans or vegetarians pretend that it is, the more their diets start to resemble mere fashion—and thus risk being dismissed as such. Emerson wrote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
From “Consider the Oyster,” by Christopher Cox, who says vegans should be allowed to eat oysters, as well as any other “animal that thrived in a factory-farm cage, one that subsisted on nutrients plucked from the air and that was insensate to the slaughterhouse blade.”
