Curious Louis Answers: Who Cleans Up Roadkill And What Do They Do With It?
including most of the farmers who raise food animals, do our very best to avoid thinking about, let alone having anything directly to do with, their slaughter. “You have just dined,” Emerson once wrote, “and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
Michael Pollan • Omnivore's Dilemma
And proceeded past Trevor Williams, former hunter, seated before the tremendous heap of all the animals he had dispatched in his time: hundreds of deer, thirty-two black bear, three bear cubs, innumerable coons, lynx, foxes, mink, chipmunks, wild turkeys, woodchucks, and cougars; scores of mice and rats, a positive tumble of snakes, hundreds of cow
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Since those deadly fires four months ago, federal clean-up crews have cleared the sites of some 4,000 former properties around LA. But while they are removing the top 6 inches of soil due to the inevitable presence of contaminants, they are controversially not testing the soil that they leave behind—seemingly in an attempt to speed up their work. S... See more
Why Look at Animals: John Berger on What Our Relationship with Our Fellow Beings Reveals About Us
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
"I stopped being grossed out when I started getting hungry and thirsty. I had to eat. And this was the job that was available," Jackson said. "You got child support looking at you in the face. And after so long it just became natural to me. To pick up a deer or a raccoon or a skunk, it's natural. I know how to get it."
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