I haven't read
The Omnivore's Dilemma, but I own
Food Rules and
In Defense of Food, both by Pollan, and he never struck me as being particularly meat-centric. In the two I own, his catchphrase is "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
In fact, in one passage (that I was sure I remembered, but had to go look up to confirm, and get the wording right), he says:
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So what about eating meat? Unlike plants, which we can't live without, we don't need to eat meat...[bit about b12 which says it's easy to get it from animals, but not necessary to get from animals] ...I haven't found a compelling health reason to exclude it from the diet (that's not to say there aren't good ethical or environmental reasons to do so.)
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Sure, he's a meat-eater, and he kind of missed on the "no good health reasons" line, but from what I've read, he's just outlining a sensible way to eat. I don't know, maybe we interpreted his tone differently.
Anthony Bourdain is another story... Eden tells me he (Bordain) has lightened up on veg*ans quite a bit lately, but I can't confirm that until I read the specific book to which Eden's referring. At this point, I just know I liked the man until he was very pointedly an asshole about being veg in general, and I stopped watching "No Reservations" because of that.
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Good gracious, I need to refresh the page before submitting.
The way I really look at it is, there are jerks who eat meat, and there are jerks who don't. There are totally awesome people who eat meat, and totally awesome people who don't. Hypocrites and assholes can be found in all walks of life, regardless of their personal beliefs. The fact that some of them are in the public eye doesn't concern me all that much.
Oh, and also---the fact that I've read stuff by Ted Nugent makes a lot of the stuff in the article seem mild in comparison.