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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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factory-farms
vegetarianism
chicken
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
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carnism
factory-farms
animal-welfare
necessity
meat
animals
evil
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Matthew Scully |
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So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer.
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factory-farms
corn
cows
oil
petroleum
industry
food
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Michael Pollan |