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Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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Why Is Taste, The Crudest Of Our

Jonathan Safran Foer
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
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This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. this is what we feel like eating. tell me something: why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? if you stop and think about it, it's crazy. why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?
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