Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Herzog, unsurprisingly, uses “it” to refer to animals, eats and wears them, and “[does] not feel particularly guilty about it” (P.S., On page 172, when Herzog writes, “I am conflicted over many moral issues involving animals,” I respond, “No kidding!” The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2022
(Note: this post refers to a trip I took a long time ago, in 2015. ” So, while the first moral seems to be quite acceptable by today’s standards, the second one is surprisingly non-pc. Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there.
Animal Person
OCTOBER 26, 2009
He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." There's not enough evidence for an accusation of moral relativism, but for me the message is a mixed one. This is not a book about animal rights, and some might say Foer gets animal rights wrong as his only reference is PETA. He never says he is.
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