Michel Faber Michel Faber BIO Michel Faber's work has been described as a combination of Roald Dahl and Franz Kafka, as Somerset Maugham shacking up with Ian McEwan. Born in the Netherlands in 1960, Faber emigrated to Australia at the age of seven and has lived in Ross-Shire, Scotland, since 1992. He has worked as a nurse, a pickle-packer, a cleaner, and a guinea pig for medical research. While that realization will not end the world's problems, it may provide some personal solace. It might also make you reconsider your eating habits.
Human beings are by nature omnivores.
Some people deny this biological fact, claiming that all our ills, such as cancer, stem from eating meat. This is nonsense. Some people, however, make a purely moral decision that they don't wish to eat other animals. This is a choice I respect enormously. Western culture's consumption of meat has reached such a pitch of gluttony that it now involves terrible cruelty to animals and alarming scientific abuses.