Keggie Carew
Auteur de Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory
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"It does not follow that because animals do not have complex syntactical language, they cannot think, as is often assumed. Coco's cognizance of human syntax, or lack of it, is not the point here. It's the dysfunctional relationships inevitable when we pull wild creatures into our world and remove them from theirs. It rarely works out well and we should stop doing it."
"Weapons gave us strength from club to spear to bow to gun. Pulling a trigger distances us, as does butchery, cooking, shopping, and euphemism."
"We forget abundance at our peril. And theirs."
"Here's the point. Food and agribusiness is a five trillion dollar global industry and counting. And that's political. Which is why you could be taken to court if you locked up your dog, but Saucy Sausages, Inc can put ten million pigs in metal cages so they can't even turn around, let alone put their nose in a drift of oak leaves, snuff the breeze, or ever feel the sun on their back. That is the reality for farmed animals. Me, humanizing them? No, animalizing them. Mammalizing them. There is no such thing as a factory pig farmer. It's a factory. The owner is behind a desk looking at numbers, spreadsheets, calculating inputs and outputs. The stock person has a job to do and a family to feed. The migrant is desperate for work. The consumer likes sausages. Government will not protect pigs because they don't give donations to political parties.
The profit is in the volume. Volume. Don't let's kid ourselves we are talking anything more than cheap sausages to gratify our greedy guts. This is not about feeding the world, the defense dredged up every time there is a question about animal welfare. Forget that a third of our food is wasted (1.3 billion tons or 3 trillion meals a year); over a third of global arable land grows crops for livestock, driving deforestation; that 7 kilos of plant protein produces 1 kilo of beef; and that there are now more obese humans than starving ones who have never eaten a sausage. For a hundred calories fed to animals, we receive 17 to 30 calories in meat and dairy products, like feeding a hundred bucks into a slot machine and winning back twenty. Every time. And we are supposed to be the rational creature. What a staggering waste of cereals, land, water, energy, and medication. Not to mention the required agrochemicals and resulting pollution. This is what threatens food security and drives poverty. People living in poverty are used as pawns to defend rich men's profit or assuage the average person's guilt. What twentieth and twenty-first century agricultural scientists and factory farming tycoons have achieved is to turn the farm animal, once again, into Decartes machine, and somehow, not enough people have noticed. We are complicit. We keep buying. We keep looking the other way. There is no outcry, apart from the lunatic fringe. We hate talking about it. We loathe reading about it. So we don't."
"Things have not improved for industrial farmed animals. They have simply become more systematic, more hidden away behind locked gates, signed 'No Entry' or 'Biosecurity.' There are things going on that should not be okay by anyone's standards. Gestation crate, veal crate, enriched cage. Animal welfare is a game of words, of enriched terms, of get-outs and loose interpretations. Guess what they call slightly bigger crates where a sow can turn round? Freedom pens."
"The methods, designs, and deaths we administer and allow in factory farms are legitimized evil."
"Our weight accounts for 36% of the biomass of all mammals on this planet. The animals we eat take up 60%, which leaves the mammals of the wild world just 4%."
"The term 'endangered species' has lost its potency from overuse."
"...we lose species faster than ever before. What a thing to wipe out a species. And what an indictment for it not to be a crime."… (plus d'informations)