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The farmer would point out to the vegan that even she has a “serious clash of interests” with other animals. The grain that the vegan eats is harvested with a combine that shreds field mice, while the farmer’s tractor wheel crushes woodchucks in their burrows and his pesticides drop songbirds from the sky; after harvest whatever animals that would eat our crops we exterminate. Killing animals is probably unavoidable no matter what we choose to eat.

Michael Pollan -The Omnivore’s Dilemma (via ladimcbeth)

I have to say, I don’t agree with this quote — and I’ve heard others say the same. I agree that death is part of life, but there is a certain brutality to killing animals for food, and eating them, that accidental death does not have. All things die — but it doesn’t mean we need to speed up the process unnecessarily. The raising of animals specifically for slaughter is it’s own thing entirely.

(I have not actually read Michael Pollan’s books, I’ve just seen quotes, articles, and the occasional interview with him.)

(via veganation)

This is what my manager tells me all the time, I need to bring up your point to him.

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