As a follow up to the Webinar on Factory-Farmed Meat:
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At some point, humanity might be deciding whether to farm any animals whatsoever, and the path we choose could hinge on whether we want to create good but brief lives as a side effect of our desire to eat fleshy foods. Kill-free meat might sound nice, but it’s kill-free only because it never had any life to end. There is a danger to sentience, since it can go very wrong for those who have it. But this calls for caution and care, not for swearing off the creation of vulnerable sentient life altogether.
You can read the whole thing here.
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"Wild animals have worse lives than farmed animals," says "Journal of Practical Ethics". https://t.co/3KMJ8zMpHl pic.twitter.com/1hSoy517lE
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) March 13, 2017
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Our industrialized food system nourishes more people, at lower cost, than any comparable system in history. It also exerts a terrifyingly massive influence on our health and our environment. Photographer George Steinmetz spent nearly a year traveling the country to capture that system, in all its scope, grandeur and dizzying scale. His photographs are all the more remarkable for the fact that so few large food producers are willing to open themselves to this sort of public view.
Click here to view. (Seems to be behind the paywall now though.)
