Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

but ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

Odder still, those who do choose to act in accordance with these uncontroversial values by refusing to eat animals (which everyone agrees can reduce both the number of abused animals and one’s ecological footprint) are often considered marginal or even radical.

Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.

Such scientific wizardry succeeded in producing cheap meat, milk, and eggs.

What if cheap animal products make ppl eat more meat?

OUR DECISIONS ABOUT FOOD ARE complicated by the fact that we don’t eat alone.

Changing what we eat and letting tastes fade from memory create a kind of cultural loss, a forgetting.

Thai street food

Because we’re taking their lives for food, I think they’re entitled to experience the basic pleasures of life

For me, factory farming is wrong not because it produces meat, but because it robs every animal of every shred of happiness.

sustainably feeding people over the long term.

When animals can't reproduce and their immune system vulnerable (easily spreading diseases) then they couldn't survive for long. Nor can humans be sure they will, because of the potential epidemics and foodborne diseases and antibiotics resistance that factory farming is breeding.