David Spencer, right, and Brett Schroedder, left, of Gibbon, Nebraska pull two Red Angus bulls, Rock Revival, with Spencer center, and Jagger, far left with Schroeder, through the cattle tie-out pens at the National Western Stock Show on Jan. 13. (Cyrus McCrimmon, Denver Post file)
Re: “Krauthammer: Will we one day find meat-eating abhorrent?,” May 8 Charles Krauthammer column.
Charles Krauthammer asks what future generations will see as similarly abominable to human slavery, and contends that the answer is eating meat. I think he’s right. Remember, other animals are made of flesh, blood and bone, just like human beings are. They have the same five physiological senses that we do, and they feel pain — in the same way, and to the same degree. Most of us would agree that eating a dog or a cat is morally unconscionable, but there is no rational difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. And yet the average American consumes about 30 of these animals every single year — most of them after a horrible life and violent death. The choice for anyone who opposes cruelty could not be more clear — a vegetarian diet.
Bruce Friedrich, Washington, D.C.
The writer is policy director for Farm Sanctuary, an animal protection organization.
This letter was published in the May 14 edition.
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