Comments on: Review: Eating Animals http://harmonist.us/2009/12/review-eating-animals/ Tue, 22 May 2012 13:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Latest Animals news – Matching Birthdates to Chinese Zodiac Animals: Correctly Matching … http://harmonist.us/2009/12/review-eating-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-3181 Latest Animals news – Matching Birthdates to Chinese Zodiac Animals: Correctly Matching … Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:51:59 +0000 http://harmonist.us/?p=3953#comment-3181 [...] Review: Eating Animals | Harmonist [...] [...] Review: Eating Animals | Harmonist [...]

]]> By: swami bv tripurari http://harmonist.us/2009/12/review-eating-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-3171 swami bv tripurari Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:58:46 +0000 http://harmonist.us/?p=3953#comment-3171 That's probably as good as it gets, which is not bad. There will always be meat eaters. I suppose it could get still a little better if cows were to be off limits. I liked your review, by the way. That’s probably as good as it gets, which is not bad. There will always be meat eaters. I suppose it could get still a little better if cows were to be off limits.

I liked your review, by the way.

]]> By: gopala dasa http://harmonist.us/2009/12/review-eating-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-3169 gopala dasa Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:48:17 +0000 http://harmonist.us/?p=3953#comment-3169 Foer profiles a few farmers who raise animals on a smaller scale, and he acknowledges the relative superiority of such a model. He speaks with admiration of the rare farmer who puts animal welfare before economics. He does not go further and explore the micro-farming or harvesting you speak of. I suspect, however, that Foer would accept this as preferable to the larger operations he describes. (Foer lives in NYC, I believe, and he doesn't talk about growing one's own food either.) Foer doesn't waffle too much on the vegetarian stance, but he leaves ideological room for those who want to eat more mindfully. In conclusion (after describing Niman Ranch in CA) he writes: "I have placed my wager on a vegetarian diet <em>and</em> I have enough respect for people like Frank [cattle rancher], who have bet on a more humane animal agriculture to support their kind of farming. This is not the end of a complicated position. Nor is it a veiled argument for vegetarianism. It <em>is</em> an argument for vegetarianism, but it's also an argument for another, wiser animal agriculture and more honorable omnivory." Foer profiles a few farmers who raise animals on a smaller scale, and he acknowledges the relative superiority of such a model. He speaks with admiration of the rare farmer who puts animal welfare before economics. He does not go further and explore the micro-farming or harvesting you speak of. I suspect, however, that Foer would accept this as preferable to the larger operations he describes. (Foer lives in NYC, I believe, and he doesn’t talk about growing one’s own food either.)

Foer doesn’t waffle too much on the vegetarian stance, but he leaves ideological room for those who want to eat more mindfully. In conclusion (after describing Niman Ranch in CA) he writes:

“I have placed my wager on a vegetarian diet and I have enough respect for people like Frank [cattle rancher], who have bet on a more humane animal agriculture to support their kind of farming. This is not the end of a complicated position. Nor is it a veiled argument for vegetarianism. It is an argument for vegetarianism, but it’s also an argument for another, wiser animal agriculture and more honorable omnivory.”

]]> By: swami bv tripurari http://harmonist.us/2009/12/review-eating-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-3168 swami bv tripurari Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:34:05 +0000 http://harmonist.us/?p=3953#comment-3168 Does Foer deal with the argument for free range animals or small farm animal "harvesting" of animals raised by the family for their own consumption as an alternative to factory farms, with the idea that this alternative is better than a vegeterian solution? Perhaps he does by way of speaking of compassion? Does Foer deal with the argument for free range animals or small farm animal “harvesting” of animals raised by the family for their own consumption as an alternative to factory farms, with the idea that this alternative is better than a vegeterian solution? Perhaps he does by way of speaking of compassion?

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