Cheeseburgers on his mind. Moby appears at Town Hall on March 26.A

Cheeseburgers on his mind. Moby appears at Town Hall on March 26.A couple of years ago I was at the Gorge with a first-timer and recent Northwest transplant. Sitting on the grass–hundreds of miles and a massive carbon footprint away the city–he told me something along the lines of, “You know, the further and further we get from Seattle, the less preachy people are. Then there’s that guy with an ‘Eat Local’ T-shirt on.”This is my favorite contradiction. Maybe you’d say hypocrisy. People–especially in this town–love to whine about other people forcing their belief system on them. They hate any whisper of religious judgment in the form of a personal boundary or belief that they feel encroaches on their space. But this allergy to hearing someone tell you that something you’re doing is wrong, is mostly contained to religion in town, and has certainly never been a problem in politics or, most of all, food.Over on Voracious, Jason Sheehan tells us about Moby’s upcoming to visit to Town Hall to pitch the new book he edited, Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety. Do I think Moby’s being preachy? Not necessarily. I haven’t read his book. But I don’t think he would be encouraged if Jason and I discussed the finer points of his tome over a Royal Red Robin Burger and a basket of fries. And if he were touring in support of a book of Christian-based essays, you can bet your butter lettuce that the “shut up and quit preaching” posts, columns, and articles would be out in full force.