Squashed

The New Yorker: Should you eat meat? (via marco)

I’m not a vegetarian for any uncompromising principles. I don’t mind that meat comes from animals, that these animals were killed for the meat, or even that some amount of suffering is necessary for the process. animals die, that we eat them, or even that there is a certain degree of animal suffering is incidental to the process. Death is part of life.

But the industrial farming and slaughter process is a mess of unnecessary cruelty in which I am not comfortable participating. I cannot reconcile my core belief that we’re in some ways responsible for taking care of the earth and the creatures on it with the realities of the confined animal feeding operation and the slaughter mill.