CHAPTER 17


so if you take everything into account, is it really ok to eat animals? i believed so,and it took the words do many animal rights activists to sway me, their arguments, especially Singer in Animal Liberation, are compelling. they say that if all humans, who are in reality not all equal deserve equal rights, why don't animals? because there not humans, one might argue. discriminating against them simply for nor being human is speciesist, once white people would say that same things about black people. thats where they got me. but im willing to admit im a speciesist and i continue eating meat. for a time, but the argument gets to me. finally i am convinced and rather reluctantly, convert to vegetarianism. now i have to deal with the vegetarians dilemma; in most  social settings either the vegetarian guest or the non vegetarian host, is put out. someone's going to feel bad. but it's just so appalling!  in todays food production industry in America, all the animals suffer greatly. life in a CAFO is no life at al. exploiting animals like this. some people say predation s a savage way of being and that history will condemn it just as slavery or the inferior treatment of women. is it possible that human have evolved past the need to kill and eat animals to survive? But is it really perdition or is it the way we do it in America, thats appalling? predation is necessary for most ecosystems and is better for the groups as a whole. for example the bison who was shaped through evolution by the native americans hunting them which also in turn was good for the planes grasses. there are ways, like pollyface farm, where you can raise and kill an animal whit out disrupting the natural or karmic cycle. in-fact animals typically found on farms entered into their relationships with humans because we can provide for them what they need and they can provide for us. we also give them the benefit of a swift and painless death, instead of the gruesome one that would await them in the wild. in a vegan Utopia of Pollyface farms all of, the idea of eating meat is perfectly acceptable, even to Singer, and part of nature. but we live in an industrial society, run by greed, in which we exploit the very animals we rely on, and frankly its disgusting.