The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

Imagine if the walls of every slaughterhouse and animal factory were as transparent as Polyface’s—if not open to the air then at least made of glass. So much of what happens behind those walls—the cruelty, the carelessness, the filth—would simply have to stop.

nowadays it seems we either look away or become vegetarians.

this is what can happen to you when…you look.

Yes, meat would get more expensive. We’d probably eat a lot less of it, too, but maybe when we did eat animals we’d eat them with the consciousness, ceremony, and respect they deserve.