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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Then again, he is not against the consumption of animals, " in general " (198). He is against it for himself and his family. Ever, in fact.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system. Scott's assumption is that we profit from certain animals.

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