2002:
A chicken farmer has to be
cruel and destructive, doing unspeakable things to hens or he’ll go out of
business. And short of moving to the city to find work, going out of business
means ruin. There are many rural suicides connected with farmers going bust.
Like many other highly
destructive pursuits, like deforesting by foresters or denuding the land by
miners, animal farmers have to destroy just to live. We the consumer can’t mine
copper or cut down timber or make food. We’re dependent on others. We feel we
have to support those people who can bring us the products we want. This is a
rich-living lifestyle we Westerners lead, where many superfluous items are
‘needed’ by us. Without them we believe we’d go mad.
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