"The idolatry of food cuts across class lines.……" — Brian Reynolds Myers

The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen… - Brian Reynolds Myers

"The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth? ..."

— Brian Reynolds Myers

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