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Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…

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If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken. — Frank Herbert
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I… — Socrates
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other… — Bernie Krause
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? — Jonathan Safran Foer
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to… — Michel de Montaigne
The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally… — Richard Gregory
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer,… — Benjamin Franklin
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be… — Heston Blumenthal
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other… — John Cusack
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. — Leonardo da Vinci
It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound… — Bjork
...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance… — Luce Irigaray

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