Meat for Thought

 It's possible Jeff McMahon just wanted to get people's um goat, and raise a ruckus -- he almost says as much in the last paragraph -- and certainly getting 569 comments is quite a ruckus-raising; but still, this is so hilariously wrong-headed and odd that it can't just be that, it has to be serious:

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/the-meat-eaters/  

His conclusion, which is so bare that it does really resemble a Swiftian modest proposal, is this:

"Here, then, is where matters stand thu...