Eat Meat NC
Eat Meat NC
The Animal Rights Debate. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In the Horn of Africa, where agriculture cannot sustain the population, and drought results in periodic famines because livestock suffer, cattle are the principal source of food. In Ethiopia and Eritrea and Somalia and Sudan, and also in Kenya and Uganda farther south, respecting the rights of those cattle will result in the early death of millions of people. Replacing the nutrition that animals provide is simply not possible there, and elsewhere. Inuits must hunt to survive. Cohen, Carl, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. 2001. The Animal Rights Debate. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In many human communities animal products are essential for survival. Ceasing to use them would entail a wholesale transformation of diet, of work, of life itself. Such a transformation would probably prove impossible for many and would result in uncountable deaths. Parts of the price of implementing animal rights would be the resultant impact on entire human culturesThe Inuit peoples of the Arctic are utterly dependent on hunting and fishing; their very bodies have evolved so as to be able to survive on the highcalorie fats that alone make life possible in so frigid an environment.