Re: Thoreau on the Moose, Paul Theroux

[Jeri Pollock <jeri.pollock@canteiros.org>]

I agree completely.....being "aware" means that one has to decide 
whether or not to take a stand. Just try teaching about anything like 
this and watch how defensive most students get!!

jeri

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Karin Molander Danielsson wrote:
> I stopped eating meat in 1994 when I realised what conditions most animals
> going  to slaughter had to endure before they died. I'm quite sure that the
> reason most people ignore the fact that most domestic animals not only die
> horribly, but also lead pitiful factory farm lives, is that most people are
> not prepared to do anything about it. It's easier to speak up against a
> (nowadays) minority lifestyle that is not part of their daily lives.
> Karin 
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> Mälardalen University
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> > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:46:58 -0500
> > From: Karla Armbruster <armbruka@webster.edu>
> > To: asle@interversity.org
> > Subject: Re: Thoreau on the Moose, Paul Theroux
> > Message-ID: <C444C5FB-AE45-4DF4-B0C9-8208C089DFD6@webster.edu>
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> > Going in a bit of a different direction:
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> > I'm no fan of Palin's, and I'm not a hunter.  But I am always curious
> > about why hunting generates such an outraged response (and equally
> > outraged defense) when far more animals in this country are killed
> > for food after miserable, insanity-inducing lives in factory farms
> > and feedlots.  Theroux doesn't even address whether or not he eats
> > factory-farmed meat, or meat at all (I'm guessing he doesn't eat
> > hunted meat).  Clearly, it's not simply the life of an animal that is
> > the issue.  (And I'm letting Thoreau off the hook here because,
> > fortunately for him, he did not know about factory farms.  And he did
> > pay some attention to domesticated animals, as Barney Nelson has
> > pointed out in her book _The Domestic and the Wild_.)
> >
> > Is this different level of interest due to the privileging of wild
> > animals over domestic?  Is there something about the dignity of the
> > wild at stake that catches our interest?  I am asking this as a
> > genuine question — why hunting is so interesting to people and the
> > treatment of animals in factory farms and feedlots is not — which I
> > hope will enlarge the hunting discussion rather than criticize or
> > silence it.
> >
> > Karla
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> > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:34:22 -0500
> > From: Sarah McFarland <sarah.mcfarland@earthlink.net>
> > To: asle@interversity.org
> > Subject: Re: Thoreau on the Moose, Paul Theroux
> > Message-ID: <488E8498-4E60-4A43-B634-56FC090A7908@earthlink.net>
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> > Hi Karla,
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> > I suspect that a big part of why hunted animals are singled out for
> > outrage is because they are individuals. Factory farmed animals are
> > "cows" or "pigs" or "chickens" but not "Bambi."
> >
> > Sarah
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