Eating Animals

Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cheap meat is a magic trick, and the trick is keeping you from looking. Jonathan Safran Foer set out to see exactly how the animals we eat are raised and killed, and what he found is a system engineered around consumer ignorance. The low price on a package of chicken isn’t real. It exists only because the true costs — to the animals, to slaughterhouse workers, to rivers and air, to the climate — are paid out of sight. Look directly at the process and cheapness stops working as a defense.

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Eating Animals