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Book: Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Nie możemy występować w obronie obojętności i ignorancji. Kolejne pokolenia coraz więcej wiedzą o tym, jak wygląda działalność przemysłu. Żyjemy w czasach, w których krytyczne podejście do chowu przemysłowego stało się częścią zbiorowej świadomości. To nas będą pytać: jak zareagowałeś, gdy dowiedziałeś się prawdy o zjadaniu zwierząt.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Wszyscy przeczuwamy niebezpieczeństwo. Nasze jedzenie powstaje kosztem ogromnego cierpienia.Gdy ktoś proponuje nam obejrzenie filmu o produkcji mięsa, spodziewamy się horroru. Możliwe, że wiemy więcej, niż nam się wydaje. Wolimy jednak odsuwać od siebie tę świadomość. Jedząc mięso, spożywamy udręczone zwierzę. Z białka pochodzącego od torturowanych stworzeń powstają nasze mięśnie.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Chickens once had a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years, but the modern broiler is typically killed at around six weeks. Their daily growth rate has increased roughly 400 percent.}"
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farmworkers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision - eating like everyone else - is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important than sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question."
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Our methodologies . . . have come more and more to resemble the methodology of mining. . . . This is sufficiently clear to many of us. What is not sufficiently clear, perhaps to any of us, is the extent of our complicity, as individuals and especially as individual consumers, in the behavior of the corporations. . . . Most people . . . have given proxies to the corporations to produce and provide all of their food.
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population -
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
This isn't animal experimentation, where you can imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it? It's easy to dismiss that question but hard to respond to
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Jonathan Safran Foer _ Eating Animals
Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. For some, that irrationality leads to a kind of resignation. Food
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