[lbo-talk] Alternet reviews Singer's latest (The Way We Eat)

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed May 24 12:57:16 PDT 2006


Carrol Cox wrote:


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>Over the long haul, among the consequences of these conditions, are (1)
>a great _reduction_ of meat in the diet and (2) the continued place of
>meat as a core part of the human diet, since the protein in grass &
>other plants only becomes available after being processed through
>animals. Less meat, much less meat -- no grain fattened cattle -- but
>never _no_ meat.
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>This is not a moral issue.
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>Carrol
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But the cows have such sad eyes! How can you let them suffer so? (Singer's argument is, in Nietzsche's sense, thoroughly Christian: the glorification of slave morality, the obsession with suffering, the self-abnegation--)

Miles



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