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Alan Miner-Berger's avatar

I very much appreciate your exploration of why in the face of every piece of evidence that the animals people eat are abused and murdered under the most horrific conditions, (upwards of 55 billion every year in the US alone, and that's just land animals), AND that they are not too good for our health, that people somehow find rationalizations albeit not legitimate ones for STILL eating animals. (One might want to watch the documentary Seaspiracy to see the devastation the fishing industry has on the world). This is all particularly confusing for me to understand especially in circles where ethics is the main reference for living ones life and we are concerned about issues of quality of life, human/animal rights, health, the environment and our own practice of making ethical decisions. I too am a long time vegan (35 years) so I made that commitment then to not be involved in the exploitation of animals to the greatest extent possible and it wasn't hard to live up to that back then and it certainly has become increasingly easier to be vegan all these years later. Every day we have the opportunity to make ethical choices and actively engage in a way that saves the lives of other beings that want to live as much as we do and improve our health at the same time. But perhaps the bottom line is this - there is no humane way to kill any living being and every living being wants to live out its natural life. Thank you Joe for bringing an important discussion to light.

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Terri Karp's avatar

At this point knowing what I know about how these creatures are kept and killed, when I pass the meat counter in a grocery store, all I see is the pain.

Great article, Joe.

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