Blog 3 - Focusing and Forgetting

In Eating Animals by Johnathan Safran Foer's I related two key words for two different chapters they are focusing and forgetting. On page 101 he describes how abstract our relation with farm animals is, how we do not experience seeing them killed to become food, in that way we forget to think about how this animal arrives as food on our table. When we hear about how animals die we think about how only those last moments are harsh for them, we don't focus on how their whole lives, how they are destined for nothing more than to become a food product. Their living conditions that we forget to realize is harsh, animals are kept confined not allowed any movement and tortured. Cutting pigs teeth, cutting pigs tails off, searing chicken beaks off with a hot blade all of this is done without anesthetic. Cows pigs as well as chickens live in their own escrament destined to die unclean and miserable. This form of desensitization is an example that we don't focus on the lives of these animals and the continuous torture that they bear. Animals bleed as humans do that means they feel pain sadness and misery. In the book The Ethics Of What We Eat by Peter Singer he describes through research every animals intellectual capability and proves how they interact in the environment of factory farms as well as a natural habitat. This is a realization of how animals are nothing more than just things in the world of factory farming.