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On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux

Animal Person

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. I didn't have to do the slaughtering to know what it feels like to have participated in something for a good chunk of my life that wasn't right. For all of us.

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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

I suppose speciesism/human exceptionalism is at the heart of the matter. The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about. Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. it's not so bad.