Stumbled upon this today going past Opera House at work, Jonathon Safran Foer author of Eating Animals will be talking as part of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Opera House on Oct 1st,
'Our lust for cheap animal protein and the intensification of factory farming make the torture and degradation of living creatures an integral part of our diet. To keep on enjoying those hamburgers and chicken wings, we lie to ourselves about what is happening in our names. Even as we claim the superiority of the human to the animal, we enjoy the prerogatives of the supreme predator and remain willfully blind to their consequences. What does being human mean under these circumstances?'
