Eating Animals 2

By 1908, conveyer systems were introduced to the disassembly lines , allowing supervisors rather than workers to control line speeds. These speeds would ramp upward for more than eigthy years
- in many cases doubling and even tripling- with predictable increases in ineffective slaughter and associated workplace injuries.
Despite these trends in processing, at the dawn of the twentieth century, animals were still largely raised on farms and ranches in much the same manner they had always been- and most people continue to imagine. It hadn´t yet occured to farmers to treat living animals like dead ones.



Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals, pg 104

Eating Animals

Having little exposure to animals makes it easier to push aside questions about how our actions might influence their treatment. The problem posed by meat has become an abstract one:
there is no individual animal, no singular look of joy or suffering, no wagging tail, and no scream.
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular."
Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.




Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals, pg 102

Oh, My Mother Despair

We were sitting at the table, in our room at the resort. She was next to me, crying. My Dad was out looking for food. I hugged her, asking, what is up with you, mom?
She answered, oh, you know me, I am just another daughter, and my mother is Despair.


R.M.Parkner, My Mother in Despair