In traditional Judaism, the wisdom is that one should recite a hundred blessings a day. And it's important to making the world a better place, because being grateful creates mindfulness, which soothes the self but also leads you to the question: How can I give others the chance to experience this blessing, too? That's generosity. Not only should gratitude be a spontaneous reaction it should also be a practicable discipline. So what should you do to show that God believes in you? One of the best things a person can do-in the direction of self-improvement-is to cultivate a discipline of gratitude. I thought that was like a very elegant one-line sermon. You know, when I was a kid, I resisted the idea of God, and my dad always said: It's not really important whether or not you believe in God, but the way you live can demonstrate that God believes in you. Ben Dolnickĭoes one have to believe in God? I don't think you have to believe in God. And if you care about animals, “the conditions that chickens and pigs are kept in on factory farms are far, far worse than those of cows,” says William MacAskill, philosopher and author of Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference. And America's poultry industry is a breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria and avian flu, the latter of which wipes out wild-bird populations. Nearly all the chickens currently in existence-even ones cage-free and raised on an ashram by kittens-need antibiotics.
We messed with the genetics of chickens starting in the 1940s to make them bloated and meaty. But with chicken, it's completely impossible. Still, if you eat 100 percent grass-fed, you at least reduce the huge fossil-fuel expenditure required to produce every pound of beef raised in a torturous feedlot. According to Aaron Gross, founder of Farm Forward and expert in all things meat-and-environment-related, it's difficult to be an environmentally responsible consumer of beef and pork. It turns out that I had it exactly backward. I'd always assumed that, going according to size, eating cows is worst (or for purposes of this magazine story, least good-ish), eating pigs is a bit less bad, and eating chickens is basically harmless.
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