I just felt this excerpt from The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey and Song by John Zmirak was worthy of a post:
It's a bitter irony that nowadays, the very people who treasure a deep concern for the ecology of the planet and maintain a healthy suspicion of the technological designs of large corporations have embraced the use of a drug produced by pharmaceutical giants which doses a woman's womb with hormones every day--you know, the kind of hormones (the equivalent male hormones are called "steroids" and are deeply illegal.) you don't want in your chicken? That's exactly why you go to Whole Foods to buy "free-range" in the first place. . . . People who rightly don't want biomedical waste dumped in a wetland will pour it into their bloodstream. They'll make sure the skin cream they buy wasn't tested on animals--then vote for stem-cell research that aims at cloning human babies to serve as spare parts.
The book itself is immensely clever and highly amusing. It chronicles The Church's history with regard to alcohol, while offering social and cultural commentary, and providing cocktail and dinner recipes to accompany the prevailing themes addressed. However, if you have never lived in Steubenville, Ohio or Gaming, Austria, it probably isn't for you.
