Monday, February 22, 2010

In the chapter, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Pollan becomes a temporary vegetarian, facing the question of whether or not animals should have the same rights as humans. He ultimately struggles with his decision and what is morally right. While reading “Animal Liberation,” he mentally argues with the author, Peter Singer, who states that treating and eating animals the way we do is comparable to how African Americans were treated as slaves and not given human rights. I do not agree with this in the slightest. Even in the Bible, it states that animals are here for us to eat. This definitely does not mean that they should be treated equally as humans. Singer and many other animal rightists need to pull their head out and see that there is a line that needs to be drawn between animal cruelty and thinking of them as at the same level as humans.

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