Matt Halteman teaches philosophy at Calvin College and is a fellow of the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics. He is the author of Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation and co-editor of Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating. He is grateful to Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology for permission to reprise some of the ideas and language from a previous article, “Knowing the Standard American Diet By Its Fruits: Is Unrestrained Omnivorism Spiritually Beneficial?”