Here’s how wowOwow’s Candice Bergan responded to the question: “Are you eating more organic food than you were a year ago?”
“I haven’t eaten red meat for forty years. I wish I could give up chicken (except free-range) but then I’m down to fish, which seem a) tainted, and b) endangered. By the way, I don’t not eat meat mainly for health reasons but also because I had an epiphany walking through Les Halles at the age of twenty-three that eating meat is disgusting, arrogant, oblivious, and unconscionably cruel.
“Moving on … I try increasingly to eat only organic veggies and fruit. Of course, I don’t, but the thought (and the anxiety) is always lurking. I am not afraid to eat great whole-grain bread. But I also eat the white kind.
“I wonder about the perils of cloning food but think it may come to billions eating cloned food or no food. I was just in Paris and am now in Berlin and, I have to tell you, I have not stopped eating. It was all delicious, and I never had the slightest frisson of fear. Moving on.”
By Candice Bergan
Photo courtesy of wowOwow.
