We Eat Babies

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-08-12 12:51:00 UTC
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Take it away, Glenn and friend:

With the hope that my friend Glenn (of Liberation BC, by the way) won't mind my elaborating here, I'll make just one clarification: the question that starts off the video is about "factory farmed" animals, but the answer covers all animal ag; it's not as if the large industrial operations kill animals who are still essentially babies, toddlers, and adolescents, and the smaller ones let them live out long, natural lives. That's not how it works. The animals are killed at these young ages regardless of where they're killed and by whom. (And though pigs don't come up in this interview, pigs are still babes when we slit open their throats too--at several months old, they're at the equivalent of the toddler stage of life; the calves killed by the dairy-veal industry are, it goes without saying, infants too.)

(And because I know he's aware and self-conscious about it--don't give Glenn a hard time about continuing to smile as he starts talking about these unpleasant things, mkay? His smile has nothing on my nervous laugh during public or recorded speaking.)

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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