alt Hacker NewsReminds me of a line that Philip Glass co-opted for his 5th Symphony:
“Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.”
Reminds me of a line that Philip Glass co-opted for his 5th Symphony:
“Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.”
Meat: To Eat It or Not - Philip Glass
https://tricycle.org/magazine/meat-eat-it-or-not-philip-glas...
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A very poetic and spiritual take, however IMHO he missed the elephant in the room for the compassion argument: breeding is much more cruel than killing by the harsh, prolonged condition. The killing in comparaison is nearly instant and arrive as a relief of that condition. Both comes together though and only considering the quicker and "natural" one isn’t fair.