The book
On the Ethics of Killing
The Moral Math of Eating
Every meal is a moral act.
It costs something in carbon, land, water, suffering and life, whether the plate holds venison, a supermarket chicken or a bowl of rice.
The book follows that cost from the grocery store to the deer blind, the kill floor and the cleaning of a wild bird, and asks what we owe the animals we eat and the land that feeds us. It does not argue for or against any one way of eating. It asks for an honest account of what each choice costs and who pays.
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Phase I
The Definition
- The Glass Wall
- The Thermodynamics of Guilt
- The Voyeur and the Participant
Phase II
The Accounting
- The Honest Exchange
- What the Vegetarian Gets Right
- The Scale Problem
- The Paradox of the Gun
Phase III
The Resolution
- The Available Honest Options
- The Edges of the Argument
- The Honest Eater
About
About Blake Binford
Blake Binford lives in League City, Texas, where the marshes and piney woods have shaped both his practice and his thinking about what it means to eat honestly.
He came up in pipeline construction, starting as a laborer and a foreman before moving into inspection and quality. He writes about both: the cost of a meal, and the cost of work done wrong.
Writing
On quality in the field
Why quality programs fail when they are written for the audit and not for the crew. Published at Field Driven Quality.
- Why Most NCRs Don’t Actually Improve Quality NCRs should drive improvement, not just documentation. Fixes fail when the field's voice is left out.
- Why Your Frontline Should Define Quality, Not Just Deliver It Field teams who help set the standard produce benchmarks that are practical and get met.
- Field Driven Quality: Bridging the Communication Gap Two-way communication between the office and the right-of-way, and what it does for quality.
Work
Companies
Three companies, held under Binford Group.