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It is convenient for people who want to prevent the eating of meat to pretend that there is no middle ground between living off of vegetables and biting the heads off of live chickens. Naturally, this isn’t true. In any field of human action there are ethical issues to be considered. Even a vegan might choose to eat meat if stranded in an area where no seaweed supplements were available to prevent painful B12 deficiency.

Catherine Friend’s book examines the ethical gradations of meat eating. There are obviously some modern farming techniques that are startling and disturbing. The reason that caged chickens or crowded cattle yards excite our sympathy is that chickens and cows are utterly helpless in the face of human ingenuity. But it wasn’t always this way. At some point in our history (weak arguments about vegetarian cavemen aside) humans were eating meat without the benefit of superior strength, speed, thick-skin, or claws. At that point, the question was not whether it was ethical to eat meat, but whether it was possible to go without eating meat for more than a few weeks.

Vegans say there is no way to compassionately eat meat. Up until the 19th century, there was no way to successfully refrain from eating meat. Veganism was nutritionally impossible. Modern availability of a wide variety of crops has made it almost possible to create a vegan diet that is not dangerous to an adult’s health, although vegan parents have killed their children through malnutrition. So if it is impossible to compassionately be a meat eater, then up until 1900 no compassionate human beings had ever existed on the face of the earth who were not suffering terrible health defects. This is obviously absurd.

Centuries from now, it may be that none of us have the option of eating meat. But in the mean time, Catherine Friend’s book is a way for people who are concerned about animal ethics to reduce the amount of suffering that is caused on their nutritional behalf.

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This is another super Garmin product. I use it for cycling and hiking and satellite reception is unbelievable even in heavy forestation. The only drawback is that the software is lacking in depth… it is very rudimentary.
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