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# Food, Inc
by: Owen Gunden

2016-07-09

tags: vegan
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I finally watched Food, Inc today. It's a start, but I found three facts
conspicuously absent:

1. Most of the monocropped grain we grow is fed to animals. If we ate it
   directly, we would need much less of it.

2. Grass fed beef and dairy are so inefficient with land use that they are less
   sustainable than feedlots.

3. Killing an animal that doesn't want to die is not treating it with respect.

Even ancient farming practices, like the ones promoted in Food Inc and by Joel
Salatin (and what we have been taught is "natural" since we were children), are
cruel to animals. We don't realize this because culturally it has always been
so taboo to talk about the perspective of the animals used for food. Even today
we dance around the issue by blaming factory farms. Yet these hellish factories
are in fact a natural evolution of the idea that it's somehow right and just
for us to dominate other species for our own pleasure. It's not.

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