One word I looked up from Gabrielle Hamilton’s essay is morose. This word is defined as being sad and gloomy.
A passage that stuck out to me was ” I said it was important to confront the death of the animal you had the privilege of eating, that it was cowardly to buy cellophane-wrapped packages of boneless, skinless breasts at the grocery store.” This stood out to me because Hamilton is shedding light on awful actions that occur when killing a chicken. When we buy meat from the store, society doesn’t acknowledge the dreadful pain, the animals go through. Hamilton uses very descriptive language to describe the slaughtering of these animals in order to gain sympathy from the readers.
One discussion question that I would like to raise about this essay is after this experience from Hamilton did they go vegetarian?