From Pets to... Prosciutto - Novella Carpenter

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/18/Farm_City_Novella_Carpenter_with_Michael_Pollan

Discussing her experience with pigs, Novella Carpenter shares her new-found appreciation for the time and effort it takes to raise a farm animal. She reflects on the making of prosciutto by saying, "It does add pressure to the chef because if you f- that up, that is a huge deal!"

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Novella Carpenter discusses her book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, in conversation with author Michael Pollan. This program was recorded in collaboration with Berkeley Arts and Letters, on June 18, 2009.

Novella Carpenter grew up in rural Idaho and Washington State. She majored in biology and English at the University of Washington in Seattle. While attending Berkeleys Graduate School of Journalism, she studied under Michael Pollan for two years. Her writing has appeared on Salon.com, Saveur.com, sfgate.com, and in Mother Jones.

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[suzhouhe]

Kind of amazing to me that we've come to a point where the decision to raise, slaughter and cook your own meat can be considered "elitist."

[Yabbablabba]

Disagree if you like but at least she is not denying the reality of what it takes to be a omnivore. You should be more disgusted by people who arbitrarily buy Big-macs in a drive-thru, and have no idea about what happens in the world.

[ytertyu]

@lamoabird she might be prettier than u cocksucking bitch , in the end u both r fucking ugly !!!!

[lamoabird]

@ytertyu Not to worry, she seems to be a fabulous woman, don't think she would marry someone stupid like you!!!!

[ytertyu]

if I was her husband they would arrest me for breaking her ugly face bones

[jayred7]

Kinda creepy to listen to her.

[nakoreanok]

she's just cutting out the middle man

[artformeandyou]

What she is doing is extremely important. We should never take our food for granite. As a society we should be aware of how our food came to be. If your not willing to consider the animals life's you take when you eat, should you be eating meat? American society today eats way too much beef, which is also extremely hard on our environment for a number of reasons, one being an extreme waste of water. Sad news if you find this clip bothersome.

[funkalunatic]

Damn, this is like some Hannibal Lecter shit.

[BabetteBombshell]

Its amazing to me that people are so freaked out to see a person who is connected & interacting with her food source. I'm sitting here reading people reacting to realities of nature that in other cultures children learn about as basic understanding of the world. Its only our seperation from our food sources that allows us the luxury of ignorance.

[m0nkeybl1tz]

Fair enough, but it certainly helps all 3.