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More and more people are giving up meat altogether or giving more thought to how they buy meat to promote the humane treatment of animals.

There it is: the ultimate commandment. Take care of your own. Protect your genes. Lay down your life for one child, two siblings, or eight first cousins. How many friends would that translate to? How many strangers who might still be out there, laying down their lives for other species? How many trees? He can’t begin to tell his wife the worst of i

also read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, an open and hard-hitting answer to the author’s sincere question, If I really knew the realities of animal agriculture, could I still eat meat? At the book’s conclusion, Foer couldn’t. And now, no longer, could I.

To ensure that the pigs can’t run away, farmers in northern New Guinea slice off a chunk of each pig’s nose. This causes severe pain whenever the pig tries to sniff. Since the pigs cannot find food or even find their way around without sniffing, this mutilation makes them completely dependent on their human owners.

Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit—in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.” 3