yet animals appear to get over it in a way humans do not.
is animals pain threshold higher or are animals more resilient than humans.
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to go with the vegan and lactovegetarian and piscatorian.
i agree that these should have their own category.
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n minutes later we were in the processing shed with a chicken,” Salatin recalled. “He slit the bird’s throat and watched it die. He saw that the animal did not look at him accusingly, didn’t do a Disney double take. The animal had been treated with respect when it was alive, and he saw that it could also have a respectful death–that it wasn’t being treated as a pile of protoplasm.”
i said before that we own chickens and this make me think of when my mom had to kill one of the roosters we had years ago and she cut off its head and it did indeed run around without its head.
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Religion and especially ritual has played a crucial part in helping us reckon the moral costs.
this is important because now that society has these rituals it brings to light the moral cost but this sentence leads into many other ways religion has influenced things.
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I asked Salatin
he has very solid references for all the things he talks about.
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Are any of these good enough reasons to eat animals? I’m mindful of Ben Franklin’s definition of the reasonable creature as one who can come up with reasons for whatever he wants to do.
this backs up his argument. giving what he has said a valid source. it's always good to challenge your own thoughts.
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grazing animals on it–
is this referring to the fact that what we mostly consume is from the animals that we put there. of course going through the breeding process and everything.
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“normal life
who decides what makes the "normal life?"
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morality is an artifact of human culture
pollan tends to look at things as a whole and tries to encompass an entire topic. he talks about the narrow loo on things as an individual and then expands to all of that individual.
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mutualism between
in this paragraph it seems like pollan is speaking to the the side of society that craves power and dominance. using animals as an example that we think it's the good life for them but really we are just trying to control them.
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the good life, if we can call it that, cannot be achieved apart from humans
Who's to say that our standard of living as we take care of animals is better for them. it may be more humane but i dont think humans can judge happiness for animals. they would probably rather be left alone. its in there nature to survive and they don't need humans until humans make it impossible for them to live without the help of us.
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cattle and chickens won’t touch.
to also add to my statement before. This relationship that the chickens have with the cows and how to chickens help to move the manure eliminating a need for the farmer to do it. The chickens are a very important part of the farm.
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chicken coop that houses several hundred laying hens
The chickens are clearly very useful to the farm. This mainly stood out to me because i own chickens. i think it makes it a little bit easier for me to envision what pollan is speaking about.
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