August 2009

I never really understood the desire to eat turtles. I get that chicken and pigs and cows are raised as food, and while it’s usually not humane, it’s something that everyone’s familiar with.

Kids are taught “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” before they can read and write, after all, and while the whole smiling family farmer in the dell and the happy cows and all of the other BS is usually—well, BS—these days in light of the factory farms that riddle the country, at least people know that the food comes from living creatures, and that they’re specifically bred for it.

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