> "But fundamentally, one thing about people in the meat industry is that they’re not going to be in the meat industry by accident. It’s a self-selecting group.

> "But fundamentally, one thing about people in the meat industry is that they’re not going to be in the meat industry by accident. It’s a self-selecting group. People who work in the meat industry, whether it is on the line or in the small butcher shop, or on the ranches, or in the big processing plants with all kinds of robots and things, they're in the business because they see what they’re doing as something more than just making meat products. They see themselves as feeding people, feeding the world, feeding their community." This is highly presumptuous of him to imagine all the people in the industry as a self-selecting group, and ignores how the poorer classes usually get into it, because they aren't able to get anything else, for long hours of highly repetitive work in an environment that poses various kinds of risks, physical and emotional. > "And the other thing is that people in the industry know the science. They’re in the barns with the birds, or with the animals, and they know how the birds wind up on the shackles, on the production line. They’ve got degrees in this, and they know what the meat science is, and they know what antibiotics are for, and why they’re used. So a lot of people in the industry wonder why they have to defend themselves when people who do not know as much as they do about the science of meat processing are telling them they’re wrong." Again, generalization does not help. Claiming that they're all experts and know what they're doing, as if to allude that it isn't harmful in different ways (it affects all other people due to the relatively higher environmental destruction too). > "Have you ever seen the eyelashes on a cow? I mean, they’re just adorable. Big eyes, and these long lashes—how can you do anything to harm this little creature? I get it. Even people who really love meat don’t want to talk about how it gets to their plate." This ending is probably the most honest part of the entire interview. And this attitude applies to many other ills that humans create for humankind.