David Cassuto
Not too long ago, I blogged about Beppe Bigazzi, the Italian tv host who advocated for stewing cats. My working theory was that Bigazzi could not possibly have been stupid enough not to know his remarks would create a backlash. If so, then he was being wonderfully subversive in a manner only available to those who are full participants in the culture they critique.
I had the same thought recently when reading this NYT piece by Adam Shriver last week (admittedly, this thought did not occur to me when reading Jennifer Church’s earlier post on Shriver’s writings). Mr. Shriver opined that since factory farms are inevitable (because they produce the meat we eat), we should turn our attention to genetically removing the pain centers in the animals we torture. The responses to Shriver’s piece took him to task for the bald stupidity of his argument (starting with his failure to interrogate the assumption that factory farms are necessary). Continue reading
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