Karen Duve-decent-my recommendation for a better life This book proposes to the gut. The famous author Karen Duve resolved to biologically for 2 months, then vegetarian, vegan and frutarisch to live. Karen Duve's uncompromising look at the actual conditions in the meat dairy industry revolves around a stomach. As in the textile industry, which serves the toiling, sweating women from the sewing machines not see need to sew our cheap fashion we see the chickens, the calves, turkeys, the pigs, whose meat we buy packaged in the supermarket.
chicks exposed in the sun the lightless halls are within about a month fattened up to 40 days to ready to eat round it. 40 days for a chicken life. A stalled Teen grown artificially. We eat this meat if we buy the "country chicken, the barbecue cups. These chickens would not be able to live longer because their legs do not hold this weight could. They would buckling them. The meat we eat without thinking about how it is possible to buy chicken for a few euros per kilo.
goes like this. As with the € 4.95-shirts at H & M.
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| what they look like, our chicken-beak-trimmed (without anesthesia) so as not to peck each other and pluck the feathers is not working, how provides |
In brash tone, the author goes very hard with him to the court describes, unvarnished their previous diet, their appetite for grilled chicken, finished products, their cola consumption, their health problems. On the other hand, they add little stories in their love for their pets too. A known phenomenon. The distinction between pet and farm animal Who can get more love? Those who do not recognize in their description? not even bother Wen various ailments that are caused by malnutrition. Those who have not already asked yourself what it is with the cheap meat (spoiled meat, "said Karen Duve) is all about? Although it tastes so good on the barbecue grill. And why can not tolerate milk. And why you do not really feel comfortable.
is particularly enlightening Duve straighten our relationship with animals and plants. limits We from other species from . "Do you subdue the earth, animals have no soul ...." these and similar statements are found in the Bible. Christian charity? Sorry, only for Homo sapiens. Animals have no soul, therefore, not in the sky and are therefore inferior creatures. Feelings? Animal but not. We are people even mammals, evolved monkeys who make it not even on the highest gene number. Rice has 50.00, we get people there to 25,000, a common roundworm has 19,000. Man is an animal.
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Something that is similar to us, we would treat with more respect, their conclusion. But so-if we do not see animals as our closest relatives, with whom we have many genes in common - we can exploit them as it suits us Also: Plants have feelings too.. How can we handle it?
Karen Duve raises forced lobbies of opinions in the media, the policy is a bright light. As for meat and dairy consumption. Just the Tasache that about 75% of the world's population can not tolerate milk, that Finland was the biggest milk consumers, while the country with the highest rate of osteoporosis, but one to think about.
milk is osteoporosis. What is cow's milk? Baby food for the calf. No food for people. When we buy milk in the business, could work only that of a cow, the calf was taken away so that we can drink their milk. Cows produce milk not volunteer for us. It is taken away. If he lives in the house, sees no lawn. If we want to live like that?
Liberating is in this book the underlying statement. The discomfort that rumbles in, compassion for the animals that need our meat and more greed is dying, a strength . No weakness. Especially in the countryside in close proximity to farms, where the slaughter is common practice, you can quickly than "wuss" be placed. be derided. When my little boy says: "I do not eat meat, I will kill an animal" - I can blame him? Current statements such as: meeting "? You wimp, so where would we be if we were not killing Well, then you may also eat no more bacon,".
If we our flesh, that is the animal itself would have succumbed, would decrease our meat consumption rapidly. What would be revolutionary positive in the face of climate change. Bearing in mind that you need for 1kg of beef about 9 kg of soybean / grain, then it ought to the most hardened Homo sapiens mammalian carnivores be clear that we should prefer to eat cereals. And should not grass eaters like cows to fatten them. Soy is grown in South America, preferred rain forest is cleared! If you can not convince people of the ethical component, it might be with the climatic .
The last step of Karen Duve: Frutarisch live To live is the height of violence and difficult to climb.. Or not? One should eat only that, so expect a plant voluntarily.
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| Jonathan Safran Foer and Karen Duve occasion of their tour in Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, Jan. 2011 |
And and and. This book can be read fluently, to live with the author and her self-experiment. It describes the way in which animals are tortured, but you have to swallow. Clipped-picked chicken beaks without anesthesia, chickens without feathers, to death. A considerable number of pigs and cows at slaughter is not dead right, so that they live to witness their slaughter. That goose alive (!) Are drawn to our Bed springs, cries to heaven. This pain! It suffered injuries are sewn with a coarse needle without anesthesia. And for the disinfection, it also does an industrial cleaner. Burns beautifully.
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Karen Duve sees herself after her experience as a conscious eater. The preferred regional organic food purchases. And want to live a vegetarian. The eggs from their own chickens to eat. The responsibility for their actions does. She feels "cleaner" healthier and have finally been removed, based on the position.
My wish / my way:
Now that many of this book, read it
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borrow more - for themselves and their own consumer-conscious a stance
-ask themselves: what I can for me / answer for my family?
-talk about shopping
Regional confidence among farmers, biological,
meat and dairy products drastically reduce
grow vegetables, individually or collectively
consume-less
- get together with Gleischgesinnten
Perhaps it is indeed the trend to behave decently, even when eating. And if someone says, "Ma, because I can not eat anything more" - this is simply not true. And by the way, Karen Duve's health values were at the end of their "cure" sensational, she was fitter and leaner. If all the above arguments should not work :-)
Karen Duve: ". Decently eat a self-experiment", published by Galiani, 2010, 280 pages, 19,50 €, ISBN 978-3869710280.
One aspect I would like to be considered separately: the ratio of the vegan lifestyle and their relation to clothing. There are some points that do not fit together with eco-fashion.
