Week of February 28, 2011:
"This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat will be shoveled into carts and the man who did the shoveling will not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one."
This quote from The Jungle helps illustrate how the food industry changed during the early 20th century (the time that the novel was written by Upton Sinclair). The horrible conditions and practices were so awful, one might consider them a cruel fairy tale or story; however, the reality of the situation was far from fantasy, for the mass slaughter of animals for human consumption had begun, ushering in an age of greed and gluttony. Why has the neglect of the welfare of what people consume continued for over a century? Why do Americans ignore the fact that what they are eating is not healthy to them or the animals? Sound off in the comments!
DR
Well Cattle Kids, I just bought this book and will be reading it in the next few weeks. I guess it's not that we eat meat, but that we don't seem to know or care about the PROCESS. As long as we don't know, we are not offended or ashamed or bothered. Kind of like the abortion issue...
ReplyDeleteIgnorance is bliss I suppose. For some people anyway.
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