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Fear Of The Dark

10,000 Birds

To avoid the traffic lights and rush hour, I drove through some forgotten, derelict industrial zone at the outskirts of the city (which is my usual shortcut). I picked up E. in the morning in front of her hotel. That would have been the last thing to come to my mind. But after 10 or 15 minutes, I was totally comfortable,” E.

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day.