PATRICE GREANVILLE—Here we have an academic who sounds (like most academics do) reasonable and balanced,” but who is in actuality neither, when we realise the context of his remarks, and his allegiance, witting or not, to the corporate status quo. For one thing, all meat production—especially in its industrial forms— is a major contributor to global heating. It should not be accorded respectable treatment but outright condemnation. This man fails to recognise that “business as usual” cannot go on; that the planet in this age of acute crisis detonated by an immoral capitalism MUST at the least have sanctuaries from capitalist exploitation.
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