A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

“Critical Animal” on Pollan

A couple of posts providing some interesting criticisms of Michael Pollan’s views on meat eating, here and here.

Pollan’s obviously doing more than nearly anyone to draw attention to the problems with our system of food production, including factory farming. And yet, he seems to have a soft spot for silly atavistic arguments against vegetarianism.

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