Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals (HuffPost contributor essay, 27 October 2009)

Natalie Portman · 27 Oct 2009

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The documented torture of farmed animals is unacceptable, whether or not one thinks animals have personalities

Their wordsPerhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities, but the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable, and the human cost Foer describes in his book, of which I was previously unaware, is universally compelling.
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The human cost of factory farming, to slaughterhouse workers and above all to the environment, is staggering

Their wordsThe human cost of factory farming -- both the compromised welfare of slaughterhouse workers and, even more, the environmental effects of the mass production of animals -- is staggering.
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Factory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age

Their wordsFactory farming of animals will be one of the things we look back on as a relic of a less-evolved age.

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