A Dual Agenda
Reading Animals: A New Ethics (Resurgence 271) required the equivalent of a hard hat on a building site. It was dangerous to look away from the page lest the known world came crashing down around my feet. Being brought up in a meat-and-two-veg environment as I was, this issue moved me greatly.
In Mark Gold’s journey through the dark world of the slaughterhouse, I reeled constantly from an intensity of shame, to revulsion, at the devilishness of the whole process. The visions described stay with me.
Progress, the greatest of all illusions, seems as far away as ...
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