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Factory Farms
Does anybody seem to have any moral qualms about factory farming?
It seems unnecessarily cruel of many animals who are often just as smart as dogs.
There's this... really spooky piece in the National Review today about the moral necessity of eradicating factory farms, where the most egregious animal abuses take place.
The fact that a Bush speechwriter wrote it is all the more fascinating, really.
Of course, the piece argues from a pro-life perspective, and it argues that we should all go vegan -- two areas that I disagree with the piece. I am pro-choice, and honestly I believe that we should treat animals humanely, not that we should ignore our nature altogether and refuse to eat them.
But the facts of these abuses are pretty hard to bear.
Perhaps the question should be for most of you is twofold:
1. What do you consider animal abuse?
2. What is your general opinion of factory farming?
I think stories like this keep the issue in the clearest focus possible. We should really consider speaking up for, and acting on behalf of, the least of those among us.
Many of these animals deserve mercy. Are you willing to grant it.
Pro-Life, Pro-Animal
The conscience of a pro-life, vegan conservative
October 7, 2013 4:00 AM
By Matthew Scully
In 20 or so years of political speechwriting, the only condition I have ever set down in advance of being hired is that I would never, under any circumstances, assist any candidate or officeholder in promoting the cause of abortion. Among employers in that time, the one I admired most was a Democrat: the late Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey, a great man and gallant champion of life who viewed abortion on demand as �the ultimate exploitation of the weak by the strong,� who considered his party�s all-in acceptance of abortion a tragic error, and who told me, long before Kermit Gosnell came along, about the filthy characters in it for the money.
In presidential speechwriting, during the first term of George W. Bush, my colleagues and I put special care into the �culture of life� theme, and I�ve sought to do the same in various campaigns going back to Bush-Quayle �92. The abortion question, rightly a defining concern of modern conservatism, will always center on mercy for the child, who is just as we once were, on our way into the world, waiting to be born and needing to be loved. Let compassion for mother and child alike be the spirit, leaving anger and sanctimony to the other side, and a decisive majority of Americans � in both parties, in every age group, women and men alike � will always be with you. In Sarah Palin�s 2008 convention address, no words at all were needed on the subject: Just the sight of the governor and her infant son Trig, a child with Down syndrome, said it all. If there was any provocation in the text directed at the pro-abortion lobby, it was simply to call the child �a perfectly beautiful baby boy.� And when that is heard as a rebuke, you know your cause has serious problems.
This cursus honorum of pro-life commitment � and you could throw in a good many columns on the matter in National Review and elsewhere � is offered by way of asking readers, and especially those of shared conviction, to consider another moral concern, cruelty to animals, in the same merciful spirit. I kept thinking of the connection between abortion and extreme cruelty during the trial last April and May of Dr. Gosnell, the specialist in late-term abortions (right there in Governor Casey�s state) who is now in prison, because it was a case of people numbed to horrors that had become routine and normalized, and a case of euphemisms dragged into the light of day. Conservative commentators seized on the hypocrisy of pro-choice liberals, deriding all the cant and rationalization that the Left uses in defense of abortion, and finally shaming the major media � thanks above all to columnist Kirsten Powers, a Democrat � into covering the trial after weeks of silence. I completely agreed, but just wished that those same conservatives might think as clearly and forthrightly about other horrors and other euphemisms.
There�s quite a bit of both, to take just the example closest to home, in the modern animal factories we call farms. One could equally cite other routine forms of abuse inflicted on animals � for spectacles, for bloody recreation, or in the name of science � but this is the abuse that is the most widespread, and the most directly affected and sustained by the choices that you and I make. The factory farms � producing almost every animal product we see sold or advertised, in our country and most others � are places of immense and avoidable suffering. And though the moral stakes are not the same as with abortion, the moral habits are, relying in both cases on the averted gaze and a smothering of empathy.
We are cautioned in some quarters that a concern for animals � especially if carried to eccentric extremes like not eating them any more because the brutality involved is morally untenable � is somehow �anti-human,� coming at the expense of our human dignity and moral concern for one another. The point is lost on me, and least of all have I ever sensed any contradiction in being vegetarian (actually, if that�s not hardcore enough for you, vegan) and pro-life all at once. Come to think of it, I first learned about the �abortion rights� cause and about the ruthlessness of industrialized farming around the same time, at the age of 13 or 14, and my reaction to both was similar: You just don�t treat life that way. Look at pictures of the victims in each case, at the thing itself, and you know that whatever problems the people involved are facing, this cannot be the answer. Routine abortion and systematic cruelty are not merely bad things of the kind that happen in any society; they are really bad things that no just society can learn to live with. As complicated, personal, and emotional (oddly so, in the case of meat and the methods that produce it) as both issues can be, in all the years since, I have never heard a single compelling argument for why the unborn must die or why the animals must suffer.
It gets us nowhere to diminish animal welfare as a moral concern by changing the subject to instances of great human affliction, as if we cannot be expected to care about both, or as if those very afflictions are a constant preoccupation in our daily lives. Such answers are the first reflex of many people, amounting to the non sequitur �There is human suffering, therefore animal suffering is beneath my attention.� Or, less loftily, �I have better things to think about.� It reminds me of the pro-abortion line that if pro-lifers really care about children so much, why don�t we focus instead on broader social priorities like more funding for federal preschool and nutrition programs to serve our nation�s precious children after birth? High-sounding arguments don�t come easy when you�re defending either abortion or cruelty, and the problem in the latter case is that the animal suffering in question is usually at human hands, caused or relieved by us individually or through public policy. Compassion for animals doesn�t drain away some finite reserve of moral energy and idealism, to the detriment of human welfare, but surely adds to the supply. In any case it usually consists in simply not doing bad things to them, and in preventing wrongdoing by others. Cruelty issues like factory farming present specific moral choices. If we�re making the wrong ones, then to shift attention to other woes in the world is just as idle and evasive as when the abortion lobby tries it.
Animals have a moral dignity of their own, a point that nearly everyone, including even some people in cruel industries, will happily concede in unthreatening contexts � that is, when we�re not talking about actually doing something to protect animals and respect their dignity. There are moral truths concerning them, too, that are just as binding and absolute as any other, if we believe in moral truth at all. One could note, among other venerable authorities, the Catholic Catechism�s reminder that human kindness is �owed� to animals, and that it is �contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly.� I am not a churchgoer myself, but there is a special rigor to Catholic thinking that commands respect, and when The Catholic Encyclopedia identifies a �direct and essential sinfulness of cruelty to the animal world,� that�s not to be brushed off lightly. The offense is presumably greater when cruelty is commonplace and systematic � across the market �vertically integrated,� to borrow a term from agribusiness � making customers complicit.
Then there�s the natural-law tradition that informs much of conservative thought � the basic idea that we all have in common an essential nature that defines the conditions of our fulfillment and happiness, the end or good for which natural rights are the necessary means. This need only be applied to animals to remind us that all creatures have natures, capacities, and yearnings that define their own fulfillment, their creaturely happiness, the good for which they exist in a design larger than any schemes of human devising. Using our own defining capacities of reason and conscience, we can derive from natural law a few rough but at least non-arbitrary standards by which to judge right and wrong in our treatment of other creatures. �Unnatural,� in the treatment of animals, is practically a synonym for �cruel�: Wrong is anything that frustrates or perverts the essential nature of an animal, such as the projects of genetic engineers to make animals more compliant in the stress and misery of modern farming; right is conduct that respects the natures of animals, with a regard for their needs and inherent worth as living creatures, and allows for their expression. (A little more poetically: �All creatures sing their Creator�s praises, and are dear to Him for their own sakes.�) Cruelty in this way is not only a denial of the animal�s nature but a betrayal of our own, and, whatever our creed or philosophy, there is a simple route to the heart of the matter: Integrity, honor, humility, righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, charity � take each of these, or any other virtue we might aspire to, and try to square it with the abuse of an animal.
Pro-life Catholics, for their part, can find some stirring words on the subject in the very same sources they rely on for guidance about the inviolable dignity of human life. Pope Francis thought it important enough to speak, in his very first homily, of �respecting each of God�s creatures.� Pope Benedict XVI cautioned against �the degrading of living creatures to a commodity,� with reference to the �industrial use of animals.� And the great John Paul II, in Assisi early in his papacy, urged humanity to heed the example of St. Francis, �who looked upon creation with the eyes of one who could recognize in it the marvelous work of the hand of God. His solicitous care, not only towards men, but also towards animals, is a faithful echo of the love with which God in the beginning pronounced his �fiat� which brought them into existence. We too are called to a similar attitude. . . . It is necessary and urgent that with the example of the little poor man of Assisi, one decides to abandon unadvisable forms of domination, the locking up of all creatures.�
Far from presenting any threat to human dignity, animals and their moral claims upon us � the basic obligation never to be cruel, not just the option to be kind when it suits our purposes � are a constant hindrance to human presumption. What is the mark of that special status of ours, anyway, if not precisely the ability to be just instead of merely dominant, to be the creature of conscience and bring mercy into the world? A loving concern for humanity that stops there, instead of spreading outward in a sense of fellowship and active respect toward �our companions in creation,� to borrow a lovely phrase from Pope Benedict, is too close to self-worship, and bad things come of it.
Animals are always getting in the way of prideful and willful people, who act as if all things exist for their pleasure and expect everything to yield to their designs and appetites, no matter how base or disordered. In that way, a dutiful regard for animal welfare helps keep us humble, as a natural check against all of mankind�s own endless fiats, much as the duty to put the interests of children first can steer adults and entire societies away from all kinds of destructive self-indulgence. No group bears a heavier duty of self-restraint toward other creatures than the people who farm them, and John Paul II, in a 2000 address, had a message specifically for modern agriculture: �Resist the temptations of productivity and profit that work to the detriment of nature. When you forget this principle, becoming tyrants and not custodians of the Earth, sooner or later the Earth rebels.�
Cruelty is less a vice in its own right than it is a cost exacted by other vices � greed and arrogance, just to start with. Victims of cruelty are the wreckage left by selfish desire. So often the easiest, most helpless victims are children and animals. Cruel people often quite sincerely protest a feeling of innocence, expecting to be judged by intention rather than by objective consequences � by what they prefer to think they�re doing, instead of what they are doing in reality. Wrongs get endlessly rationalized, power turns to tyranny, so that even Kermit Gosnell, somewhere in the back of his mind as he was killing infants who had survived abortion attempts, may have felt himself to be a faithful servant of Progress and Reproductive Choice, doing work the world approved of even if it preferred not to know all the details.
Every mega-farm and slaughterhouse operator, the servants of Productivity and Consumer Choice, can tell their own sorry story of how they are just trying to satisfy customers who insist on an outcome without thought to the means. No matter that great masses of living creatures are left to live a tortured existence for the sake of things we could do without, never knowing the least touch of human kindness, and, in the end, millions are even scalded or butchered alive: None of that is the intention of the enterprise. Almost nobody actually means to cause suffering. The intention is merely to meet commercial demand for cheap meat, and, like late-term abortionists when they are suddenly exposed and held to account, the factory farmer�s defense always has the half-true ring of an aggrieved accomplice � in effect, �Isn�t this what you wanted?�
Abortion on demand and the cruelties of factory farming, in the more candid discussions about the reasons for both, are presented to us as necessary evils, essentially on grounds of pragmatism and economics. (There is even a similarity, at the depths of the depraved thinking that goes into both, in carefully couched attitudes of class, with dirty-shirt operators like Gosnell understood in certain circles to be useful in controlling the population of the poor, and the factory farms � harsh and distasteful as they are � useful in feeding and employing the poor.) Both industries are blunt, practical solutions to hard moral problems that the people who advocate them have despaired of dealing with in some gentler way. They�ve given up, and they won�t feel right about it until we give up too. We�ve got to be realistic, we�re told. Maybe in some ideal world every child could be wanted and loved and every creature treated compassionately, but it�s just not that way, here in the real world. Sometimes we just can�t afford to be humane, much as we�d all like to. So, get used to it. Try not to visualize so much. Just do what has to be done and put the rest out of mind. This is the m.o. of Planned Parenthood and other such groups, and it is the whole business model of factory farming.
Consider �mass-confinement� farming, the literal �locking up of all creatures� that John Paul II said it was �necessary and urgent� that we abandon � to little avail, if he was trying to get even Catholic moralists to listen up. This is a scheme of pork production hailed to this day within the industry as a wondrous cost-saver, improving the quality of life for producer and consumer alike. The very term would have stopped farmers of another day in their tracks, being so utterly foreign to a real farmer�s sense of limits and honor. Just one feature of an �intensive farming� system that is now the norm, mass confinement for pigs began in the 1960s with the inspiration of a corporate guy and former Democratic state senator in North Carolina named Wendell Murphy. Later associated with Smithfield Foods, today the world�s largest pork producer, Murphy figured out that if you put slatted flooring in sows� stalls, so that their waste could fall beneath the structure and flow out to form lakes of excrement nearby, the creatures could just stay there endlessly. He eliminated the inconvenience that animals are, well, animate, and that by moving around they were burning off calories, which only added to labor costs and cut into profits.
This one contrivance removed any further need, practically speaking, for the pigs to go outside, to root and forage, care for their young, mix with one another, or otherwise enjoy, before their death, something resembling a life. With no laws to stop him, and political connections to help him, one supremely selfish man pronounced his own �fiat,� and for all of these creatures there was darkness. And, of course, the tighter the gestation crates, the more �production units� � mothers � could be packed in for maximum profit. So what if they can�t even turn around? �Science,� an industry spokesman has explained, �tells us that she [a sow] doesn�t even seem to know that she can�t turn.� Stuff the sows with vaccines and antibiotics to counteract the confinement-borne diseases that would otherwise kill them, feed their offspring growth hormones, so that �life� for the 350,000 or so pigs slaughtered every day just in our own country is six or seven months of mutilation and pain � and you�re talking real savings. �Science� doubtless proves they don�t even know about those miseries, either. (Keep farm animals in constant confinement and deprivation, in the priceless rationale of Wesley J. Smith, and they �cannot know what they are missing.�) Imagine, to borrow a comparison for sow crating from Temple Grandin, years in an economy-class plane seat � except on concrete, while being sick, atrophied, covered with sores and bruises, and alternately abused and ignored by the flight attendants � and you get the idea.
It�s all very �science-based,� and mass confinement worked out just great for Murphy, who retired a rich man in a spacious mansion (nothing like room to roam); great for contract farmers, who don�t have to worry any more about details like tending herds or basic veterinary care (high attrition being part of the model, just drag all the dead ones into the �cull pen�); and, above all, great for lovers of pork chops, bacon, and ham, who get more for less. There�s just the one downside that pig farms, in North Carolina and now the world over, resemble concentration camps, complete with barbed wire to keep away the curious, and consumers find it upsetting to hear what�s really going on at Murphy Family Farms, Happy Valley Farms, Smithfield Farms, and all the rest of these morally fraudulent enterprises with their countrified brand names. Years of reform efforts by the Humane Society of the United States and other groups have sought, with success here and there, to restore a modicum of mercy to the industry, and the pork producers� associations fight at every turn because � maybe you guessed � there�s no �turning back the clock on modern agriculture.�
Other factory farmers had meanwhile been dispensing with similar inconveniences in similar fashion, with the very modern outlook that they�re going to do the worst to the animals anyway, in killing them, so what does it really matter what happens before then? A quarter-million chickens might fill a single facility, with more scenes of privation and squalor even as factory farmers still boast of their �flocks� � which are tended, as all across livestock agriculture, by unskilled and often illegal workers who are held in almost as little regard as the animals. In like manner, cattle blood is fed to calves as a replacement for mother�s milk, so that humans can drink the milk, and the rendered remains of herbivores are fed to other herbivores � more cost-savers, never mind cannibalism, infectious agents, and other bright-line barriers of nature that would have caught the attention of any sane person not caught up in the culture of cruelty. �Downers� � dairy cows and other farm animals too sick or lame even to walk to their own death � for years have been beaten, prodded, and lifted or dragged to slaughter by bulldozers, and it still happens in disregard of minimal regulatory safeguards. How dare they slow down the line? �A cow�s a piece of machinery,� as one industrial dairy farmer expresses the spirit. �If it�s broke, we try to fix it, and if we can�t, it gets replaced.�
With all the nervous evasion of apologists for abortion after Dr. Gosnell�s fetal slaughterhouse was revealed, factory farmers say of such cruelties, when the scenes are captured on film, that these are �extreme cases,� not at all representative of normal standards. But there are no standards; such minimal regulations as apply go unenforced, and the extreme in both industries is the essence of the enterprise, above all in the treatment of new life. Hundreds of millions of male chicks, of no use to the egg farmers because they can�t lay eggs or grow fast enough to be sold for meat, are hatched into the world every year with only �instantaneous euthanasia� awaiting them, meaning a conveyer-belt ride, alive and fully conscious, into the grinder. This is considered an acceptable cost of egg production, and the practice, we�re assured, is �supported by the animal veterinary and scientific community,� which itself has been corrupted by the money and influence of agribusiness. No matter what new perversion of animal husbandry the industry might devise, it can always count on the sign-off of friendly veterinarians, as true to their oath (�to promote animal health and welfare, to relieve animal suffering�) as Dr. Gosnell was to the Hippocratic oath.
Among its other wisdom about empathy for animals, Catholic teaching here advises: �We are bound to act toward them in a manner comfortable to their nature.� And even in our secular age, one is hard put to think of any principle of Christian moral conduct so thoroughly or casually disregarded. That single injunction, were it actually applied, would go a long way toward ridding us of cruelty in general and especially of the factory farm. There, as in the abortion clinic, every good instinct of humanity, every alarm that nature can sound, says, �Don�t do this.� But on it goes, all of this and more, and least of all can pieties about mankind�s unique moral stature be used to cover the offense and discourage reform � as if our august status means that other creatures are nothing, or that we humans are just too �exceptional� to be bothered.
Radical cruelty by some inspires radical kindness in others. There are so many vegetarians and vegans already today � along with millions who refuse, at least, to buy factory-farm products � only because livestock farming in our time is so abhorrent. It is true, as author Mary Eberstadt writes, that factory farming and similar abuses of the animal world are �simultaneously morally urgent and widely ignored by many people, including and inexplicably by many well-meaning but hitherto under-informed Christians.� There is, she observes, �a practiced desire to remain ignorant of those things about which we wish not to know,� a temptation that pro-lifers should be the first to recognize. But this, too, is changing, among people of all ages, faiths, and backgrounds. A highly regarded thinker in conservative circles, Eberstadt offers these points in the foreword to an excellent new book by Fordham scholar Charles Camosy, For Love of Animals: Christian Ethics, Consistent Action � signs that serious people are starting to address these things in a serious way.
Sometimes the most subversive standards are the ones that we ourselves profess, and here defenders of the unborn need only think of their own most universal ideas and moral guideposts: The restraint of the strong toward the weak. The compassionate society. Broadening the circle of protection. The prior claims of life � �the things that are,� in a phrase of John Paul II�s. The Culture of Life. �Choose life.� Honoring the Lord of Life. Which of these, when we turn to grievous animal suffering at human hands, counsels doing nothing? Which would make a fitting inscription over the gates of a factory farm or modern slaughterhouse? I can think of only one pro-life catchphrase � the Culture of Death � that would look just right.
Factory farming amounts to a complete subordination of animal life to human convenience, the reduction of thinking, feeling beings to commodities only and of their fate, no matter how horrific, to a calculation of pure self-interest. And it is not by chance that the abortion culture and the culture of cruelty came about at the same time. They are products of the same mindset and hardness of heart. They involve wretched things we don�t even want to think about. They rely on concealment of fact, denial, bluff, and euphemism, because it can take just a moment of real reflection � informed conscience � to undo years of propaganda.
To escape judgment, in the insular world that cruelty creates, both interests spend a lot of time and money working on their image, relying on eerily similar contortions in science, law, and language. And for all their truculence, the propaganda of both convey a deep insecurity, always straining for just the right pitch of mainstream respectability, and settling on the same formula of smarm, appeals to self-regard, and false indignation over encroachments on privacy. The fur industry has for years played up personal choice, freedom, and rights to market its entirely frivolous products, and lately factory-farming interests have picked up the theme. Here�s Rick Berman, a Washington, D.C., operator who runs various civic-sounding, tax-exempt front groups for animal-use industries: �Everyone should have the right to make his or her own choices about what to eat and drink. . . . We respect your personal choices, and we expect the same in return.�
The main front group is the Center for Consumer Freedom, a �non-profit� outfit devoted to �protecting consumer choice� (from those anti-choice �radical vegans�), and along with the pro-choice pablum Berman has lately provided yet another refinement of phrasing. Industry dogma holds that what looks so mean and ruthless in our modern farms is actually, as a fellow from Smithfield once put it to me, all �for their own good.� In that spirit, advises Berman & Company, forget all that nasty stuff you�ve heard about sows condemned to pitiless confinement in gestation crates. Think of them as �maternity pens,� and what could be wrong with that?
A sense of entitlement is critical to the effort. Crude self-interest in both cases has to present itself as morally superior, sanctified by the act of making Personal Choices, so that self-denial and altruism are somehow made to seem in error. The trick is to celebrate choice while creating the illusion that one really has no options at all.
My favorite examples where animal welfare is concerned are the celebrity chefs, always good for comic relief when they pronounce on weighty matters, typically with meditations on the Larger Meaning of Meat: joie de vivre, tradition, family bonds, holidays, conviviality, and all those other good and wholesome things that, we are supposed to believe, all suddenly vanish forever without flesh on the table. As Anthony Bourdain, host of the Travel Channel�s No Reservations, put it a few years ago in a CNN debate with Jonathan Safran Foer about the ethics of eating meat: �What about pleasure? I mean, for God�s sake, man � pleasure! . . . Sitting together at a table and enjoying meat � isn�t deliciousness important? Isn�t it really important?�
We vegans, of course, don�t have families or tables or happy times together over meals, but sit joylessly alone subsisting on roots, leaves, and crusts of bread, breaking the silence only with our wails of outrage and resentment toward a world that doesn�t understand. It is a caricature that suits the self-satisfied, and nobody panders to it quite like Bourdain, though he does at least spare us the euphemisms. His show takes him around the world in search of ever more exotic fare, and though factory-farmed meat is beneath his standards (of deliciousness), the whole shtick is to give cruelty � any food that pleases him, obtained by whatever means � the feel of the hip and cool, with the militant gourmand�s usual hyperbole and exaggerated taunting of critics. He�s the edgy, restless, �deliciously depraved� truth teller of the kitchen who�s had it all, because �you only go around once� so grab what you can, a sort of Hugh Hefner of gluttony bidding us to follow along and get some too, defying those censorious types who would deny us our choices: �Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for: the pure enjoyment of food.�
Cuisine may differ from culture to culture, but the epicure is a universal type, and Bourdain is doing his all to shake that uncomely image. When your whole deal in life is the relentless quest for the perfect meal, you have to try very hard to make it appear to be about something bigger than that, picking fights with people who actually have ideas and convictions so that you seem to be a man engaged in the serious debates of our time, giving freedom and lifestyle choice a vigorous defense. You�d better �stand for� something, loudly and abrasively, because otherwise viewers will soon catch on to a libertine and a bully. The only question in Bourdain�s case is how to square the tough-guy persona with a pursuit so effete, and C. S. Lewis, in The Screwtape Letters, offers a plausible explanation. Gluttony, Screwtape counsels the tempter, is far less a matter of quantity than of particularity, of having our every appetite pleased, and men are the ripest targets:
The other path is to show freedom of choice by using it, no matter whether the rest of the crowd is heading that way; to consider bigger possibilities for our lives, seeing beyond the moral problems to a moral opportunity. It is usually the sign of sincere moral effort that it requires doing the harder thing, reexamining a habit or practice, giving something up � if only gradually, in the way of most such striving � regardless of the cynics and moral sloths always ready to tell us we don�t even need to try. That decision, one heart at a time unwilling to abide cruelty, will one day be seen, I suspect, as a natural next step for civilized humanity. If, as factory farmers tell us, �There is no other way,� as a matter of economics, to supply meat to a world of 7 billion, then maybe there is no other way than to give it up, and be free of it all, as a matter of conscience. Don�t pretend it�s all about something else, in any case. The fun, tradition, and togetherness go on without meat and animal products, only better for the knowledge that our pleasure is not extracted from a hidden world of pain. Why is the �killjoy� the one who wants to be generous, letting all creatures share in the happiness of life?
If thoughts of �pain� are what trouble you, �ag-science� can help there, too, with sober studies laboring to prove � usually by means of some god-awful pain experiment on a pig � that farm animals don�t experience pain or even fear. This is a dogma, as British philosopher Stephen R. L. Clarke has observed, that �has never satisfied anyone without something to gain.� But the experts haven�t given up � the grim influence of behaviorism has been just as insidious here as in the study of human beings � and still it is maintained that none of our fellow creatures really feel anything akin to human suffering, or for that matter human happiness. Rather, we are assured, with their squealing, bellowing, bleating, whimpering, and attempts at flight � �avoidance behavior� � animals just sort of �mimic� the pain-and-fear response.
Animal pain is �mere pain,� as the theorists have variously described it, something in the �hardwiring,� an unfelt, �pre-programmed� neurological reflex to �negative stimuli� that silly people still tend to �anthropomorphize� as the conscious experience of pain and fright, comparable to how you or I would feel if we were caged, beaten, and prodded onward toward violent death, seeing ahead of us what was happening to the others. No form of advanced barbarism comes without a patina of scientific sophistication, and where animal suffering is not denied outright, it is declared empirically unprovable, left vague in the literature with a �decide-for-yourself� air of resignation and a prohibition of questions or final conclusions. It is the same general branch of science that gave us those experts trotted out a generation ago to brush off as mere �reflex� or �spasm� � as a fellow creature was �undergoing demise� � the obvious signs of fetal pain in the documentary film The Silent Scream.
In their PR campaigns, it is the all-important mission of both lobbying groups to prevent images like those in that still-unanswerable documentary from getting out. Indeed, it�s hard to think of any two legal enterprises, at least in developed societies, that have more to fear from simple photographic images than abortion and factory farming. So in recent years livestock interests have leaned on legislators to make it a crime to take pictures of factory-farmed animals, and in some states they have already succeeded. Subjecting animals to agonies that would shock and outrage the public if we saw these scenes on film � that, we are told, is nobody else�s business. It�s not the cruelty that needs to be stopped � it�s those damned pictures.
They don�t want anyone coming near, least of all anyone with a camera, because when the pictures and videos get out, they never quite capture the industry as it sees itself. The whole routine of bluff and sanctimony doesn�t work any more, as people see for themselves what the choices really are. At public events and stockholder meetings, factory-farm executives from Tyson, ConAgra, Smithfield, and all the rest complain of being harassed by zealots and do-gooders holding up pictures of their victims, images often so heartbreaking that the news media won�t show them. Many of the men and women who see those pictures are changed by the experience, their conscience awakened, never again able to talk around the matter in polite generality or comfortable clich�, while others react in rage and bitterness at the �emotional pressure� of being asked even to look. Does any of this sound familiar?
Talk about �avoidance behavior.� Here we have two industries avoiding judgment by the same deceitful means. National Review�s Andrew McCarthy not long ago described a Colorado case in which �pro-abortion activists filed a lawsuit against anti-abortion protesters, claiming that the display of graphic images of first-term abortions amounted to an actionable nuisance.� �Imagine,� writes McCarthy, by way of comparison, �if we had told the anti-war Left that photos of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison could not be publicly displayed. You know, �We�ll just describe the whole thing as �enhanced detention� � or, maybe, �choice� � no need to get more graphic than that.� How long do you suppose that would have been tolerated?�
It�s a great point, but there is an even better parallel, requiring no imagination at all. In dozens of states right now, a major American industry � as central to life as any can be � is trying to use the law to limit free speech and, with that, public knowledge of its routine inhumanity. And this suppression of evidence has been tolerated by the conservative press and by nearly every major media outlet. Outside of animal-welfare circles, it hasn�t received nearly the attention that such a scandalous abuse of power warrants, much as factory farming in general has spread across the earth with only occasional journalistic scrutiny.
Last May, when Smithfield Foods announced a pending acquisition by the Chinese meat company Shuanghai for some $4.7 billion, this was treated as big financial news, even rating a mention in Politico�s �Playbook.� Here is arguably the worst of the worst among American meat companies, whose animal dungeons I have seen for myself, now exporting the merciless systems that it pioneered � going abroad, in part, because demand for meat is declining here as more Americans cut down for reasons of health and morality. And all we get in the way of analysis is number-crunching and vague talk of �food safety� concerns, as if even those very concerns were not related to the brutality of both the Chinese company and Smithfield. There was an empty courtroom press section in the early weeks of the Gosnell trial; there is similar empty space in coverage of factory farming and like enterprises, awaiting reporters who will challenge cruelty and all of the corruption that comes with it.
The contortions in reason and law, for apologists of both abortion on demand and animal cruelty, likewise seek to place as much cognitive and emotional distance as possible between the choice and the consequences, typically with abstract constructs that painstakingly parcel out rights, allocate power, and invent whole new nouns to take the flesh and blood out of the picture. Mary Elizabeth Williams, reflecting in a Salon essay last January about a hypothetical mother and �the non-autonomous entity inside of her� � who is accorded rights only to have them �trumped� by autonomous Mom � is working the same philosophical ground as critics of the animal-protection cause, with their elaborate theories explaining why animals are �un-self-aware beings,� �non-rightholders,� �inappropriate objects of sympathy,� or something, anything, other than what they are by any standard of common-sense morality, and above all of Judaeo-Christian morality: powerless fellow creatures, formed of the same dust, to whom human beings have obligations of both charity and justice. In both lines of thought, escaping inconvenient duty is the aim, the strong �trumping� the weak and defenseless with all manner of precious distinctions and pretentious verbiage. And, for similar reasons, these arguments get complicated.
For instance, in an outstanding column on the Gosnell trial and all the euphemisms it blew away, National Review editor Rich Lowry got to the central problem: �His case is so discomfiting for liberals not only because it is such a stark picture of the seamy, money-grubbing side of abortion, but because it illustrates how slight the difference is between late-term abortion � or late-term �health� � and what nearly everyone recognizes as a crime.� Ramesh Ponnuru, writing for Bloomberg News, made the similar point that unborn babies at the same stage of development, emerging from the womb or still inside, are in essence the same babies, and it�s pure caprice that the law protects one and not the other. �This distinction makes no sense to many people, who wonder why the location of this young human being should make such a large difference in whether he will live or die.� As Kirsten Powers summed it up: �That one is murder and the other is a legal procedure is morally irreconcilable.�
All true. But the rules of clear thinking and moral consistency � above all, the rule of treating natural equals equally � lose none of their validity when we turn to animals, even if the sins of cruelty are of a lesser order than violence to a baby just weeks or days away from birth. In the way of other slight differences and arbitrary distinctions in law that should leave us feeling uneasy, compare the treatment of farm animals to that of other animals protected, on the books at least, by cruelty statutes � protections that are themselves a fairly recent development in Western law.
If you were caught even once inflicting on a dog the punishments that are directed daily at factory-farmed pigs, you would be arrested and answer for that offense in a court of law; in many jurisdictions, the offense would carry a serious possibility of prison time. Dogs and pigs are entirely similar creatures, equals in every relevant way including their intelligence, emotional capacities, variations in personality, and experience of pain. Yet the one is protected from human wrongdoing and the other you may lawfully and profitably treat like garbage, with no regard whatever for that creature�s suffering or dignity. Comparable cruelty toward comparable animals makes you in the one case just another farmer and in the other case just another felon, as Michael Vick can attest.
This particular disjuncture between reality and law didn�t happen by chance. To avoid the massive inconvenience of calling things by their name in law, and acting accordingly, livestock interests years ago saw to it that in the collection of federal rules pertaining to commercially used animals � our Animal Welfare Act as amended several times since the Sixties � farm animals were specifically excluded from the very definition of animal. Just like that, with a few words in a statute and attendant regulations, an entire class of billions of creatures was cut off from any legal obligation to it and, as the industry hoped, from the shelter of human sympathy.
It is an echo of other raw acts of federal power, snatching �personhood� away from unborn children, and in a way this arbitrariness merely codifies an attitude that comes across in our everyday references to animals, an almost random use of personal and impersonal pronouns. �It� is the one exploited or discarded, �he� or �she� the one named and loved. People often do the same with the unborn, even in later stages when the gender is known. �She� or �he� is the one a parent will take care of, �it� the one that Planned Parenthood will take care of.
That legislative power play by the industry spared factory farmers the legal problems, but it doesn�t spare us the moral problems � problems that these very people, like the pro-abortion lobby, have only made more urgent by embedding them in law, exporting them to the world, and resisting, as a threat to Choice, even minimal limits. They tolerate no restrictions, whether it�s extreme cruelty or late-term abortions, for the same reason, too: because they know where the logic leads. The �slippery slope� that both fear we might descend leads, not to unreason, but to unequivocal truth. It is always wrong to deliberately take an innocent human life. And it is always wrong, everywhere and in every case, to abuse animal life. No person, and no thinking, feeling animal, either, is ever just �it.�
A good many people first awaken to the suffering of farm animals by noticing just such contradictions and connections � not only because animal cruelty is bad morals, but because it is also bad reasoning. The concept of �wanton cruelty,� traditionally used to distinguish unavoidable severity from gratuitous abuse, starts to fall apart as soon as you notice the capriciousness in so much of how we act and think about animals. All that factory farming has done � and, on a lesser scale, other animal-use industries � is to make wanton cruelty systematic, giving it the institutional feel of something orderly, rational, �normal,� and beyond question.
Why is it right or fair to pamper dogs (the lucky ones) and torture pigs? In some corners of the world they torture and eat both, and by what coherent standard can we tell those savage people that they�ve got it wrong? In the underground meat markets of Thailand, Vietnam, and South Korea, as CNN reports, �a common belief is that stress and fear releases hormones that improve the taste of the meat, so the dogs are placed in stress cages that restrict their movement,� among many sufferings that end only when they �have their throats cut in front of other dogs who are awaiting the same fate.� If such practices are morally out of bounds, that�s news to American agribusiness.
It�s all just cultural preference, habit, and custom, as Asian connoisseurs of meat from dogs (or horses, monkeys, dolphins, whales, and on and on) will be quick to tell you. Morally, the differences between pigs and dogs, and between our treatment of them, are purely conventional, the technical term for meaningless. Appeals to convention may be well and good in matters of taste or social etiquette � there is no One True Way to greet guests or prepare party favors. But if we are being morally rigorous, then citing �custom� is just a tautology: We do it because we do it. In this case, you could switch the picture here in our own country all around � dogs to the abattoir, pigs on the couch � and convention and custom would be just as defensible. Or, more to the point, just as indefensible. We can be consistently kind or consistently cruel, but anything in between has the whiff of moral relativism, right and wrong decided by whim.
[to be continued...]
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You've made the frequent mistake in this thread of confusing any indictments of factory farming to be indictments of animal agriculture in general. I've corrected you at least twice up to this point.
Do you have anything you'd recommend me reading through?
Have at.
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I love how you call people out for not responding but you repeatedly leave out parts of posts to avoid responding. Do you admit it is your expectation that your feelings on this subject are obligated to be shared by others?
You say our treatment is immoral and unethical and needs changing but thats where you stop. What would you say to someone who called you immoral for eating meat? Do they have an ethical obligation to believe you shouldn't eat meat?
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You still have not responded to my question, mr. tegu. Even now. I mean, Jesus Christ.
Here's what you've said in this thread:
1. Animal abuse is immoral -- or at least, specifically, smashing the skull of a piglet into concrete is immoral.
2. I, mr. tegu, do not believe that humans have an ethical responsibility to prevent undue harm upon animals we intend to eat.
I've walked you into this dead-end because you need to address this. These are two conflicting statements. Clearly.
If animal abuse exists and is immoral, which you clearly agree it is from point #1, then the only logical conclusion to draw from that is that we have a morality regarding pigs. We have a moral obligation not to bestow abuse upon them.
That is the logical follow-through of your claim. Which baldly contradicts point number #2.
I've been pointing this out for about twenty posts now, slow-walking you into it.
Your response, rather than recanting point #1 or point #2, is to simply not address it, and pretend like that contradiction doesn't exist by ignoring it and criticizing me for any number of reasons.
And if that's where we're going to end up, where your arguments don't have to make sense, and don't have to maintain any intellectual honesty, then where could this discussion possibly go that's productive.
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I don't know the total capacity of the lot but it is north of 30,000 head. If that's not a "factory farm" I don't know what you could possibly think is.
Check out the pictures of the lot at the link
Here is the Google Map Satelite Image. For scale, that feedyard is almost a full section. A section is a mile by a mile. That's 640 acres. That's 27,878,400 square feet. By all the definitions you provided me via the wiki page, this falls into "factory farm".
That "factory farm" has natural feeding that has no hormones or antibiotics. You can read about it in the link. I personally buy this beef when I
Almost all animal agriculture feeding is "factory farms" per your definition on the wiki.
Google it
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You can't define factory farm so how can you quantify it?
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My thread isn't about heat stress.
Do you have anything regarding what we've actually been talking about? I'm seriously asking.
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Not sure I believe that. MAYBE if you throw out the cow calf guys, you might maybe get there, but there aren't that many hobby guys around.
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Where's the conflict?
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I'm asking him to explain his morality. Which he's refusing to. Because it will contradict himself.
The obvious solution is just to ****ing recant one of his two statements. Or admit there's a contradiction.
But I'm guessing he won't, because it's the Internet and where would we be if people were honest with themselves online.
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You agree that it's immoral to abuse pigs -- at the very least, in the form of smashing their skulls against concrete. Tell me why you believe it's immoral.
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"I want to be like Dakota." — Isabella Grossman, the 5-year-old sister of Dakota Grossman.
Dakota Grossman.
It is a name that will go down in Maui Interscholastic League lore.
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- - UFC 98: Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans (http://www.mmaforum.com/ufc-vbookie-betting/55284-ufc-98-lyoto-machida-vs-rashad-evans.html)
UFC 98: Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans
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Lyoto Machida
Fighting out of: Belem, Brazil
Age: 30
Height: 6 ft 1 in
Weight: 205
Record: 14-0-0
Last Fight:
vs Thaigo Silva (Win- KO)
Rashad Evans
Fighting out of: Albuquerque, NM
Age: 29
Height: 5 ft 11 in
Weight: 205 lb
Record: 18-0-1
Last Fight:
vs Forrest Griffin (Win- TKO)
Im gonna start this off on the right foot.....15k on Lyoto....the next champ......:thumb02:
40k on Machida
so far so good...!!!!:thumbsup:
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10K on Rashad
LMAO, has the champ ever been this much of an Underdog before? Especially seeing as the champ is Undefeated :D
man, with those odds, if somebody could lend me cash on this.. i would bet on Rashad all the way.. its ridiculous odds!
Dan Miller, according to those odds, has the same chance to beat Okami than Rashad beating Machida!
even Machida fans should not bet on this fight, its not worth it!
280,000 on Machida. If you let me down, my accountant will find you. My MMAF accountant.....?
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Skip to comments.Liberals Gone Wild..(Or, Your choice of the worst thing that has been said about the election.)
Posted on 11/06/2004 3:10:10 PM PST by BallparkBoys
Ok, so we all know that the Democratic Party and Liberals are the epitome of open-mindedness, tolerance and civility . So that we can have a lifelong record of what was said after this election, please post favorite quotes for the hysterical left in this forum.
If possible, cut and paste the quote here and list the author/source. Linking will not be helpful as those pages will be gone shortly. But if we can grab snippets of the outrageous things that have been said/done and list them here, it will serve us in the future when we look back on this election.
I'll start us off: Daily Mirror: "How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB"
Maureen Dowd: "W.'s presidency rushes backward, stifling possibilities, stirring intolerance, confusing church with state, blowing off the world, replacing science with religion, and facts with faith. We're entering another dark age, more creationist than cutting edge, more premodern than postmodern. Instead of leading America to an exciting new reality, the Bushies cocoon in a scary, paranoid, regressive reality. Their new health care plan will probably be a return to leeches."
Democrat Underground asking: "Which was worst, 9/11 or 11/02/04?? And having 11/02/04 WIN!!!
This should be a nice teaching tool that we can show others how tolerant the left really is. Thanks for your help!
These people need serious help. Wait, you can't help them. I guess they should drink cyanide laced Kool-Aid.
John McCain about Swiftvets: "Dishonest and Dishonorable."
Breaking news?
You think that's bad? Look at this over at DUmmy land:
Poll question: Who's worse? Osama bin Laden or George W. Bush?
Let's take up a collection and buy some land in the Great White North and they can all go and live there as a new nation, the Canadians will take anybody and they need the money.
My 16 year old was so mad, she tore it off and substituted a sign that read, " Oh you tolerant, peaceful, LOOSING liberals."
New sign today, " God save us from your president "
I want to move.
To pick a nit, the poll was about 9/11 and 11/3, not 11/2. The day that Kerry conceded was what they had in mind, not the day of the election.
I can get more posts then that in an hour just by mentioning that a moose bit my cheese eating sister while she was trying to set her beeber to stune.
The re-election of President Bush is worse than 9/11
New sign......Like it or not, our President will pray for you too.
Spell check: There is no such word as "loosing." The word losing has just one "o."
Only for you , Maureen. Only for you.
The worst post-election bunk I've heard was on NPR. They had a pundit who said that Bush won because he used the media better than Kerry. He said Bush ran a "mythical" campaign as opposed to Kerry's fact-based campaign. Americans chose the feel-good mythical campaign over reality.
Funniest sign in the back window of a Texan's Ford pickup:
A graphic of a screw next to the words John Kerry. seen Nov 5th..LOL.
Your daughter could x out, using red paint, everything after the "you" in "your."
Who are these 100,1000 innocent people that George Bush (supposedly) killed?
oops! I meant 100,000.
Wicked diatribe -- let me guess, one of Kerry's daughters?
Thanks for pointing that out. I feel like lose/loose has just recently fallen off the edge of the lexicon. Seeing it used wrong in large mags, blogs, EVERYWHERE! It's one of those doomed to die a horrible death because "spell checkers" can't recognize it for poor spehllarz.
I know you've been at FR a long time but you must not have been reading a lot of threads lately - loosing is the "in" way to spell losing now.
Many months ago, I wrote to Mary and told her she must have the worst job in the country trying to keep up with Kerry's lies. I never heard from her.
Second, I think the assertion that 100,000 innocent killed by "Bush" is a BLOOD LIBEL against the United States. It's as if our soldiers are just looking for "innocents" to kill, and were given ORDERS to do so!?
Some of the "Innocents":
Wow. Nice language! I have just two words for them - "BIG DIG" - it's a federally funded money pit, a dismal failure and Ted K brought home the biggest piece of pork to Massachusetts, home of John Kerry (and me) and the largest group of libs in the country.
And let's not forget, "A moose once bit my sister", and "All your base are belong to us".
But the word "loosing" has two. :-P
Put up a sign saying, "God save us from fools."
And stune my beeber!
Maureen Dowd got some problems. Let us hope the leeches suck all of Maureen Dowd's blood.
Is there still a link to the rant you posted ? This needs to be archived in the name of tolerance.
Frightening. Does he really not know where that George Washington dude came from? Or that Jefferson fella? Or that Cornwallis was defeated, uh, kind in a southerly direcccion....
And lessee, what were the two biggest Tory sellout refuges, uh, maybe occupied New York and Boston????
My God, look what public ed has done to these people, or worse, to our common history.
Cameron "yes, I am a real dumb blond" Diaz saying that rape would be legalized and women would lose their right to vote.
LOL! Good post. It proves our point that leftists don't have a clue about the proper construction of the Constitution (liberals believe the constitution means what some unelected judge says it means). The post also proves another point not previously mentioned: leftists are stupid as dirt when it comes to the state of residence of some of our most important founding fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry Lee.
On another topic....I'm just now thinking how ironic it is that both party conventions were held there. Hmmmm.
You mean like hugh and series? I didn't think it made it to those ranks.
I still think it is just being misspelled because the correct spelling is not phonetic.
At any rate, hugh and series deserve recognition and when they are used it is tongue-in-cheek. Loose does not fall into that category, IMO. Seriesly.
The one from my post is on the bottom of the page, right below the rant. The really scary thing is that it was copied to another list I'm on that is mostly 30-something mothers! And tey were applauding it!
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Today, I woke up from an amazing dream. I dreamt that I got a promotion at work and doubled my income, the dream was so great that I tried so hard not to wake up. When I did wake up it was 10 o'clock, two hours late for work I noticed I had a voicemail from my boss. I was fired for being late. FML
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Today, I found out my grandpa died. As I rushed home crying to comfort my parents, I got pulled over for speeding. The officer told me to cut out the "fake" tears". When I told him my grandpa just died he tacked on another $100 for lying to an officer. Worst. Christmas. Ever. FML
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Today, a car was tailgating and honking at me while trying to pass me, so I decided to be a bitch back and go extremely slow. We got to a two lane road and the car passed me up. The man in the front seat flipped me off while pointing to his wife in the back seat who was clearly in labor. FML
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OSHA National News Release
U.S. Department of Labor
National News Release USDL 03-33
January 23, 2003
Contact: Frank Meilinger
Phone: (202) 693-1999
WASHINGTON -- With temperatures across the country at or near record lows, OSHA is reminding workers and employers to take necessary precautions. Workers in construction, commercial fishing, maritime and agriculture are among those who need to take precautions.
Prolonged exposure to freezing or cold temperatures can result in serious health problems such as trench foot, frostbite and hypothermia. In extreme cases, including cold water immersion, exposure can result in death. Danger signs include uncontrolled shivering, slurred speech, clumsy movements, fatigue and confused behavior. If these signs are observed, call for emergency help.
OSHA's Cold Stress Card provides a quick reference guide and recommendations. Available in English and Spanish, this laminated fold-up card is free to employers, workers and the public. Among the tips:
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Dr. Theresa L. Hartsell is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment in the School of Nursing.
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Thanksgiving in Kabul, and so much – and so many – to be thankful for. I finally feel like I am exactly where I am meant to be in life. Thank you – to new friends and old – for being a part of that. And a special thank you (bear with me for a long post – feel free to just control + f for your name):
To the colleagues that helped me get here – Toby, for having the controversial faith to give a 20 year old college student a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; Agus (who I just saw after three years!), for making the introduction that brought me here; Tara, whose stories and experiences were what ultimately convinced me to jump on the opportunity; Ahmad, for being the facilitator that made this trip happen.
To my Twitter and other virtual buds (I do work in social media after all!) – some of whom I have yet to actually meet in person – Amandine, for trusting me to stay in your (amazingly warm and welcoming) home while you were away; Sajad, for making so many connections after numerous online interactions but just 1 in person meet-up; @_ndrw, for being a constant and supportive reader; Akhila for inspiring me with your writing; and Abed, Alex, and Mike for all of of the hours we spent working together on TEDxKabul communications.
To my family, friends, friendtors, and mentors back "home" – mom and dad for putting up with my impulsive decisions as well as the ensuing worry; Rajiv for the years of love and support – I will never forget them; Yamila, whose Egypt adventures gave me such wanderlust (and the push to create my own adventures); my old colleagues for still being so supportive (especially Will and Nathan for making me still feel part of the "team", and AMC for the continued mentorship); Lulu (and Cadengo) for all of the pre-Afghanistan support and friendship; Lisa + Lulu collectively for reminding me of where I come from and that some things never change; Matt, for the encouragement to move forward when everyone else called me crazy; Cecilia for taking me in when I most needed it; Martin, for being the one man that's stuck around the longest (8 years of friendship and counting!); the entire Global Shapers community for giving me a built-in and inspiring/encouraging community where ever I am; Justin for being such a great sounding board; Ted for inspiring; and Eugenia, for being the absolute best bestie a girl could ask for.
And to my new (and old) friends in Afghanistan – Farid and Zahrona for the years of friendship; Riz for making me feel so welcome during those critical first days; Gull, for helping me to feel at home for the first time in Afghanistan; Paddy for giving me a place to crash and regroup; Eliot for always making sure I was on the invite list; Melissa for being a wiser older sister and anthropology mentor; Ahmad (again) for the great conversations at FSC, Dari lessons, and shisha adventure (more to come?); Maria for being a kindred spirit in country; Pashtoon for an unforgettable experience in Kandahar; the entire Kabul rock scene (Trav, Warren, Pedram, et al) for converting me into a total, loyal groupie; and last – but definitely not least – to Hameed and Una.
Hameed, so thankful for your infinite patience and insight, for the good times we've already had, and all of the adventures to come. I can't wait.
And finally to Una, for being a source of support, wisdom, and laughter since even before I arrived in country – thank you, thank you, thank you. My first two months in Afghanistan would look so different without you.
I know there's so many people that I missed, but I think you know who you are. Thank you so much for being a part of my life. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Big hugs from Kabul,
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