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Claude Lévi-Strauss said[0]: "A day will come when the idea that for the sake of food the people of the past raised and massacred living beings and with comple
by infruset 6y ago
Claude Lévi-Strauss said[0]:
"A day will come when the idea that for the sake of food the people of the past raised and massacred living beings and with complete equanimity displayed their flesh in bits and pieces in shop windows, will no doubt inspire the same revulsion that the cannibalistic meals of the Americans, Oceanians, or Africans inspired in the travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."
[0]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss
- sfj 6y ago> raised and massacred living beings Plants are also living beings...
- neotek 6y agoWhat an insipid observation.
- Infinitesimus 6y agoIt does highlight the the problem most people have isn't that the beings we consume are living but rather that we have reliable indicators of their suffering before being killed. Most of the moral objection seems to be from the suffering and conscious death