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John Day MD's avatar

Thanks for this introduction to The Feral Atlas. The illustration of the piglets nursing on the caged sow and effluent draining away is important, but people do not want to know how that lovely crisp bacon comes to be on their plates. Those business owners, like the owners of our world in general, are best understood as gangsters (IMHO). I am aware of an action taken against an environmental engineer, working for an American state, who was investigating a giant pig farm too closely and reducing profits. A masked man emerged from the woods with a hunting rifle and shot him in the groin when he was jogging his regular route. After a prolonged recovery, he retired.

The shooter was never identified, and no motive was identified, but it is clear who profited.

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

"...do not want to know how that lovely crisp bacon comes to be on their plates..."

Indeed a vast majority of human beings do not want to accept

1. that the age of exuberance is over

2. that killing animals at this rate - will lead to more disease and virus, bacteria etc

3. economics, industry and corporations are actually divorced from nature / careless of limits.

You may like this article - https://audiopervert.blogspot.com/2021/09/very-clever-but-not-nearly-smart-enough.html

(Us as an irrational species eventually)

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John Day MD's avatar

I read that article and it does not disagree with a recurring theme, which I posted on most recently in August: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/explaining-involuntary-reductions

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

Thanks. Your article is on my reading list.

Best wishes from Valencia ESP

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John Day MD's avatar

Valencia Spain, or Valencia Extrasensory Perception?

:-)

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The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

España Valencia señor!

I'm Indian, yet this small corner the Mediterranean is my home.

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John Day MD's avatar

World-famous oranges, too.

I like traveling in India. It takes a certain understanding of one's role and the attendant rules which apply. I think it's easier for a white American than for an Indian-American, myself.

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