Welcome to Small Bite Sound Bites, a midweek segment of food for thought podcast where I,

your host Colleen Patrick-Gudrow, share short, succinct, thoughtful responses to typical

questions, myths, and misconceptions related to plant-based eating, veganism, and animal

protection.

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Some people justify their consumption of animals by pointing out how brutal nature

is.

Have you ever seen an animal killed by a carnivore?

It's brutal.

I would rather be killed humainly by a human rather than die violently in the wild.

I've heard variations of that over the last 24 years, leaving aside the claim that being

killed by a human is humain.

This is an utterly fictitious dichotomy, as if people are eating farmed animals to save

them from the ferocious predator.

That's pure fantasy.

We are not taking prey animals from the wild in an effort to save them from the hungry

predator that's absolutely ridiculous, and we are not eating pigs domesticated in

industrialized farming systems because we are trying to save them from the wild.

It's just something we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better as if our consumption

of factory-formed pigs and cows is a gesture of kindness to wild cows, to wild pigs.

It doesn't even make any sense when you start to unpack it, and it doesn't take very

long to unpack it.

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