In order not to discourage us against the figures [of animals killed per year] reminds us what was lesclavage cétait and that far from being a battle won davance: "As these shipowners chartering ships for the slave trade, who could not imagine that lon put an end to a trade that made the richness of Bordeaux, Nantes, Liverpool or Bristol, maybe narrivez you not to conceive lon soon put forward a culinary practice that brings you every day thousand gustatory pleasures. In short, perhaps are you that this individual, sil continues not to pay attention, will miss the train of history. "
Contrary to what one might think, the ethical reflections concerning vegetarianism do not date of yesterday. Already, Plutarch, the first century AD wrote: "What a monstrous meal dassouvir his hunger of animals still roaring, than to be ready beasts that breathed, still talking, than prescribing how to cook, of seasoning and serve! This is for those who started these horrible feasts, not those who finally left the place of quon sétonner. "
My favorite part of the book is where he traces the history of vegetarianism focusing more on the nineteenth and twentieth century. We learn, for example, how and in what context was created the SPA and the first laws that have been passed in favor of animals that will, like the Grammont law of 1850, the creation of slaughterhouses "in order to avoid the view of passersby and residents of slaughtering animals. "He obviously Dont forget to highlight the contradictions of society as when he writes:" In 1976, French law really recognizes that the pet is a "sentient being" who must benefit from its owner, leaving this dattentions sensitivity (Article L 214 of the Code rural). "And further:" The legislature thus legalizes one side what it prohibits from another side. It's a bit like lon prohibits torture while legislating on how to practice torture. "That's right quon have been more consistent is not it?
Finally, for dessert, it will offer us the delight of dismantling the most common misconceptions, not forgetting the famous cry of the carrot! Terrible: what these barbarians band veg!
