“Humans will eat almost anything if you put a little salt and butter on it. and the butter is made from our milk. Makes me feel oddly complicit and guilty.”
I picked this quote because I feel like its a major theme of the book. We eat cows, chicken, and other animals and I suspect we all understand this feeling of doing regardless of feeling guilty. I think that line also speaks to how we, as people, have our own role in this even if we wish we could forget or feign ignorance. The cow continues to let herself be milked because its normal and keeps the status quo as well as keeps her current lifestyle. This is like how people do the same thing in regards to eating meat. Everyone else eats meet, family and people at events expect to eat meet and no one wants to disrupt that status quo or change lifestyles regardless of the feelings of guilt.
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