Ethics of Eating Meat

         The articles "An Animal's Place" and "Fowl Trouble" are both opposed to the eating of meat and specifically chickens in the way that we are currently doing so. "An Animal's Place" is focused on the ethics of eating meat and causing harm to other animals. It goes over all the reasons why it is unethical and how "speciesism" is going to be looked back upon as being as horrible as the holocaust. I think this article provides some very good and logical points as to why it is wrong to kill and eat other animals. However, I still don't think this article addresses that fact that eating other animals is a part of human nature and built into out instincts. A great majority of animals are carnivores and it is the natural way of life. I cannot see humans as a whole species completely giving up eating meat.
        The other article, "Fowl Trouble" is focused on how horribly chickens are farmed. Reading this article, while it was much shorter, had a stronger impact on me. I could argue my way out of "An Animal's Place", while it did have some very good points. But, when hearing the facts it makes it hard to deny that what we are doing is wrong. I think that eating meat is apart of our lives and it always will be. But, I do think that the way we are doing it now is very unsafe, unethical, and harmful to both the animals and factory workers. Movies like Food Inc. which actually show the process of how we obtain our meat are very hard to watch. If we cannot even look at or think about the way we obtain our meat this means as a race are clearly doing something wrong. We have become so unattached with where we get our meet from because as Pollan discusses, we do not ever see the animals we eat anymore and this has left us confused and uninformed about where we are getting our meat from. I think that these articles brought up some very interesting and thought provoking points and have informed me a lot about the different opinions regarding eating other animals.