Blog #8

Pollan describes in the chapter Ethics of Eating Animals that there is multiple ways of ideas people have to eating meat and their feelings for animals (Pollan 304). There is two aspects on where you can look at it, being that you do feel bad for the consumption of animal’s meat and how they are mistreated but you cannot give up the delicious flavor it provides but then others who detest the cruelty of animals do not eat meat at all because animals are looked at as humans and should not be inferior. I fall into the category that does not support animal cruelty and have been a vegetarian for 5 years. The reason why I had chose this aspect is because of the evidence that was shown to me on how animals were slaughtered so that we can eat their meat. I believe that animals like humans have the same equality in the idea of feeling; if we can eat animal meat then we show that like history has proved animals are being discriminated much like African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and Women during their suffrage of not being able to vote and being looked at as property. So the consumption of meat that was produced through the cruelty of animals is strongly explicit in my view. I cannot avoid or detest the view of others who I bet dislike how animals are slaughtered but enjoy the taste of meat that cannot be given up so lightly.