Marlin Jenkins itibaren Baran Hara, Punjab , India

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2018-09-22 03:40

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Holy moly, are you ready for a rant? I knew it was coming, but the part where she talks about 'harvesting' their roosters (aka killing them, which she tries to write about in a comical way, which I found nauseating...she talks about disemboweling a rooster while family members read about how she's the "74th most dangerous liberal american" in some publication...HA HA ISN'T THAT FUNNY, no it's not.) and down-talks to vegetarians about their life choices and in her opinion, how she basically thinks being vegetarian is meaningless ("think of all the bunnies that were killed when your spinach was harvested!" & "if you don't want to kill living things, why do you take anti-biotics!!!!! viruses & infections are living things too!") and not NEARLY as great as growing your own roosters to eat, really bothered me as uppity and wrong and generally ignorant of many of the reasons why vegetarians are so. It was a weak defense and I could just imagine countless vegetarian people justifying returning to meat because Barbara Kingsolver told them to do it and made them feel foolish about their decisions. She seems to claim that the best & most earth friendly diet is to grow your own food organically, which I agree with, but barring that, the next best option is eating locally grown, grass fed meat, which I don't agree with. She mentions that 75% of vegans/vegetarians who go to work at meat farms "return to eating meat" which is just such a bizarre statistic to throw in there because what kind of vegetarian works at a meat farm??? Personally, I want to stay as far away from a slaughterhouse as possible, even one where the chickens and cows "led happy lives beforehand." I could go into my own ethics about the evolution of humans and improper use of farmland in the US as feed grain, but I'll try to get to the point. I do think that if you're hellbent on eating meat, the best way to do it is locally, supporting humane farms - ie free range (truly free range, not supermarket "Free range"), grass fed (natural diets) and local. And if you can do it yourself, raising your own livestock, that's the way to ethically confront what your role in the food chain is going to be. And if you're hellbent on dairy, samesies. But I really hate how Barbara Kingsolver simplifies vegetarians motives & makes them sound so stupid and ineffective, which they aren't. She sounds uneducated on the subject, and the multitude of reasons why people become vegetarian - which include not JUST the environment (which yes, it does positively affect the environment to be vegetarian) but also ethics & health. To be honest, her ~20 year old daughter follows up that particular chapter sounding much more mature about it than her mother. Anyway, I still have a little more to read of this book, but that chapter has been burning me up, and frankly ruined so much of the beauty of this book preceding it. I love when Barbara Kingsolver talks about the changes in her garden, the quirks of the vegetables she grows, and how it all brings her family together - she is such a great writer - but I absolutely HATE when she gets preachy and pious, which is unfortunately VERY often.

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