Moby Discusses New Book Critical of Factory Farming

AlterNet recently interviewed musician Moby on the publication of his new book, Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat), edited with food policy activist Miyun Park. According to the March 31, 2010, interview, the vegan manifesto is “a medley of anti-industrial meat memes written by an eclectic mix of advocates, experts and others who offer 10 compelling reasons for eliminating factory-farmed animal products from our diet.” The popular DJ touted his tome as “more factual and informative than most other animal-oriented books,” decrying what he described as the deliberate deception of agribusiness firms, “which maintain a PR ethos of egregious obfuscation.”

Dismissing claims that Gristle contributes to a spate of “glitzy celebrity propaganda campaigns,” Moby pointedly declined to quibble with the term “conscientious carnivore” and conceded that “[a] carnivore who eats local chickens and is loving and nice to everyone around him is probably a bit higher up on the ethical scale than a vegan who is a sociopath.”