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Lars Johnsson wrote:
Thank you Steady Hand. The factories in the west that handles the meat, they look even worse. It's just that we can't see it there.
Lars
Exactly. One thing I've always appreciated about meat consumption outside the West is the honesty of it. Western agricultural practices, wherein few even see the animals being eaten, are born largely of cowardice Most of us in the West can't confront the fact that the "protein center" of our plates was once a living, breathing animal.
It's one thing to say that we are OK with that, but quite another to separate ourselves from the reality in order to avoid the moral and emotional import associated with killing for food. The sanitary supermarket masks a livestock management process that is unremittingly brutal to animals, factory workers, and the environment. But we'd rather not hear about it and just enjoy the pork chop.
I love this series for its honesty, just as I enjoy the subjects for their (probably unthinking) honesty. For them, eating animals isn't an issue, so the animals are on display. For many Americans, eating meat is no issue until they are confronted with where it comes from.
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