Take that, Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan spends the first handful of chapters in The Omnivore's Dilemma describing the havoc the industrial food industry (the meat business in particular) wreaks on the environment and the incredibly cruel treatment the animals in the food industry receive. Despite all of that, he argues that ultimately, animals benefit when we eat them because it ensures their survival as a species.

Anytime Stephen Colbert agrees with you, you know your argument is completely ridiculous.

Emerson quotation

Last night I was reading The Omnivore's Dilemma and Michael Pollan quotes this line by Emerson:

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.