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» Robert Dailey - Oh, the Horror!

As a dedicated carnivore, but also a concerned environmentalist, I feel qualified to write about "inhumanity" to animals.
First, we in the U.S. have enjoyed such a standard of life that allows us to take up causes that smack of intellectual imperialism.
The Masai people regularly bleed their cattle for protein by stabbing their jugular with arrows. They then add the blood to the milk. Is that inhumane?
Most cultures in the world have raised livestock. Farmers actually feed these animals to make them fat. They then butcher them to provide protein to the human community. And its not just us fat and happy Americans. Farmers all over the world have been raising (also killing, cooking and eating) the fatted calf (and pigs, and chickens, and oh, yes, geese) for millenia. Inhumane?
I fail to see the relationship between fois gras and starving children. Those children would jump at the chance to eat fois gras, or anything else. The real inhumanity is people's inability to focus on the real issues, not some absurd and irrelevant fixation.