Erik Markus at Vegan.com comments on Michael Pollan’s usual idiocy (a recent Pollan piece in the New York Times). As usual, there’s plenty of silliness to comment on with regard to the original Pollan piece (as usual), but this one bit of Markus’ response jumps out at me:
Everyone except the goat had a marvelous time. There’s no reason this sort of communal meal needed to have victims. And I highly doubt that the slaughtered goat felt consoled that Pollan hoisted a glass in his memory to end the 36-hour feast. I know that kind of empty gesture always pisses me off.
I've been making this case online and off, forever. Eating animals does not honor them. It satiates a desire for the taste of animal flesh. It's not honorable in the slightest to mislead yourself and claim that animals "died for" you. They didn't sacrifice themselves for you — you killed them (or you paid someone to do it for you). There's nothing remotely sacrificial about this exchange. Animals are not "honored" by modern humans killing and eating them, when the overwhelming majority of whom have the very easy means to go vegan, and stay vegan.
More on the specific Pollan piece when I've had a chance to go through it fully.
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