Audiovisual Media>Audio Recording: Glass, Ira (11.27.1998), 116: POULTRY SLAM 1998, This American Life, Retrieved on 2012-02-24Source Material [www.thisamericanlife.org]
Folksonomies: radio Memes
24 FEB 2012
Farm Animals Give Their Lives That We May Eat
One of the greatest metaphors in Western Civilization is that of Christ who gave his life so that others might live, and I don't want to be sacreligious and I don't want to belittle that myth in any way, but a pig is giving its life so that we might eat, a chickent is giving its life so that we might eat, and I think the least that we can do is to think about that chicken, to think about that calf that we're eating. Not neccessarily to be sad for it, but to celebrate it, to be aware of the be...A mindful quote from Jonathan Gold.