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McDowell—who contrasted humans, as reasoning beings, against animals??described the human characteristic of autonomy as the self-government of the mind and “the capacity of an individual to determine her thought or act for herself...
...sensed this great disconnect between the political class and the artistic class, a lack of interest, a lack of involvement, which struck me as tragic because we’re not economic animals??we’re ultimately cultural animals. We are who we are, the language we speak, the notions we entertain, all of these are cultural, the things we do artistically, the things we take in. So to have a class that was so disconnected culturally struck me as very dangerous. I thought: what can I do as a citizen, a citizen of the arts...
Sebastián Vélez—biology graduate student, resident tutor, assistant resident dean, sophomore advising coordinator, Life Sciences 1b test grader, and teaching fellow for “OEB 51: Biology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals??—arrives in his Cambridge lab after dropping Mariana at school...
...sound, we would put small microphones on people, occasionally on the sheep or the horse or the dog. Not so much on the animals??[the microphones] were very expensive and the horse would often break it and so on. That way, while I was filming, I was also listening to people who were a mile and a half away from...
What lends “Eating Animals?? its power, though, is neither its scope nor its journalistic merit. Rather, the importance of “Eating Animals?? lies in the depth and nuance of Foer’s argument and in the portrait he sketches of animal agriculture as it stands today. Foer is occasionally shrill in his denunciation of factory farms, but his examination of animal welfare representatives—a vegan activist, several “ethical farmers” and a small slaughterhouse owner—is both more in-depth and more...