Comments on: PETA goes carnivore http://www.scienceline.org/2008/04/29/peta-goes-carnivore/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:41:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alan Dove http://www.scienceline.org/2008/04/29/peta-goes-carnivore/comment-page-1/#comment-1706 Alan Dove Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:13 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/04/29/peta-goes-carnivore/#comment-1706 We've been here before, albeit for different reasons. Up until World War II, food invariably came from sources that we would now categorize as "natural" and "organic," not because it was fashionable, but because that was the only way to grow it. In the postwar boom years, the food and chemical industries, aided by a complicit US government, retooled this process to make our food more "scientific." This revolution has continued for 60 years, and its crowning achievement has been ... our current food supply system. Like synthetic foods? Have some more high fructose corn syrup. We’ve been here before, albeit for different reasons. Up until World War II, food invariably came from sources that we would now categorize as “natural” and “organic,” not because it was fashionable, but because that was the only way to grow it. In the postwar boom years, the food and chemical industries, aided by a complicit US government, retooled this process to make our food more “scientific.” This revolution has continued for 60 years, and its crowning achievement has been … our current food supply system. Like synthetic foods? Have some more high fructose corn syrup.

]]> By: Mark http://www.scienceline.org/2008/04/29/peta-goes-carnivore/comment-page-1/#comment-1698 Mark Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:21:08 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/04/29/peta-goes-carnivore/#comment-1698 Great article - fascinating stuff. But if, like you say, you'd like to know where your dinner comes from, then you should take a look at modern farms, where literally billions of animals spend their entire lives in tiny cages and filthy sheds. You can see it for yourself at MeetYourMeat.com Scientific minds, more than anyone else, should recognize the significance of the fact that we are so closely related to other mammals and birds: we are more similar to them than different from them. So what is the basis for the vast ethical gulf we place between us and all other species on earth? We have to rethink our attitudes and treatment of other animals, just as we are rethinking our attitudes and treatment of the natural environment. Alternatives to meat may be a very good beginning. Great article – fascinating stuff.

But if, like you say, you’d like to know where your dinner comes from, then you should take a look at modern farms, where literally billions of animals spend their entire lives in tiny cages and filthy sheds. You can see it for yourself at MeetYourMeat.com

Scientific minds, more than anyone else, should recognize the significance of the fact that we are so closely related to other mammals and birds: we are more similar to them than different from them. So what is the basis for the vast ethical gulf we place between us and all other species on earth?

We have to rethink our attitudes and treatment of other animals, just as we are rethinking our attitudes and treatment of the natural environment. Alternatives to meat may be a very good beginning.

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