On Eating Meat - Matthew Evans in conversation with Laura Dalrymple

On Eating Meat is a scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. He is in-conversation with Laura Dalrymple of Feather and Bone.

About the Book

How can 160,000 deaths in one day constitute a 'medium-sized operation'?

Think beef is killing the world? What about asparagus farms? Or golf?

Eat dairy? You'd better eat veal, too.

Going vegan might be all the rage, but the fact is the world has an ever-growing, insatiable appetite for meat - especially cheap meat. Former food critic and chef, now farmer and restaurateur Matthew Evans grapples with the thorny issues around the ways we produce and consume animals. From feedlots and abattoirs, to organic farms and animal welfare agencies, he has an intimate, expert understanding of the farming practices that take place in our name. Evans calls for less radicalisation, greater understanding, and for ethical omnivores to stand up for the welfare of animals and farmers alike. Sure to spark intense debate, On Eating Meat is an urgent read for all vegans, vegetarians and carnivores.

Praise

"Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources of the meat we eat. Matthew Evans brings his unflinching honesty - and a farmer's hands-on experience - to the question of how to be an ethical carnivore." - Hugh Mackay.

"Intellectually thrilling - a book that challenges both vegans and carnivores in the battle for a new ethics of eating. This book will leave you surprised, engrossed and sometimes shocked - whatever your food choices." - Richard Glover.

About the Author

Matthew Evans trained as a chef and worked as a high profile restaurant critic, before throwing it all away to become a small holder in Tasmania’s peaceful and picturesque Huon Valley. Matthew now fattens pigs, grows vegetables and milks a recalcitrant dairy cow for regular Friday afternoon Feasts on Fat Pig Farm.

Matthew presents the popular Gourmet Farmer on SBS and hosted two documentary series, What’s The Catch and For The Love of Meat. He is the author of eleven books on food. When he’s not weeding, writing, cooking, agitating or farming, Matthew is going to teach his son to fish.