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We Did Not Combat Factory Farming Well (7) (opens the original)
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Why Don’t We Talk About This Evil More?If your first exposure to the cruelties of factory farming was this series, it is indicative of the problem we are about to explore. Most of us live extremely busy lives. We are what Byung Chul Han refers to as a “society of laboring.” There is always something that needs to be done, perhaps in actuality, perhaps in the labyrinth of our mind which needs the world around us to be a certain way. Whatever the reason, a task always haunts us. The reality of suc
Is God Not All Powerful? (opens the original)
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It would be dishonest of me to begin by saying that I was once truly an atheist. That I had ever in my life contemplated that there was literally no God. This is not because I am such a righteous and pious individual - I am truly anything but that. It was simply because the idea of a world without a first cause or creator just never made sense to me. It was a notion that I just couldn’t accept, no matter how much I entertained it. What I did struggle with quite a bit however, though slightly les
I Promise You - Teshuva is Not What You Think It Is (opens the original)
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It’s that time of year. Rabbi Y-ov will speak about Teshuva as atonement for sin. Rabbi X-berg will call it returning. Y-pv will say the war won’t end until we repent. Rabbi X-berg will say the war must cause us to reflect. Year in, year out, the message is the same. It’s routine. We ritualize routine at a time of year which protests routine at its core. We never stop to ask "“why involve myself in Teshuva at all. My penitence won’t cure the ills of the world. Why ought I return or repent when t
Factory Farming Has(d?) Its Merits (6) (opens the original)
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The tendency of this generation’s influencers appears to be that the progressive types can offer no praise for the systems that moved society to its most prosperous, and the more traditional types cannot seem to admit that flaws exist (or at the very least do not have the passion needed to work on said flaws). I do view the issue of veganism or anti factory farming as a progressive one. However, I do not want to commit the sin of pretending that factory farming has or had no merits. Phil
The Real Harms of Factory Farming On Us (5) (opens the original)
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Consider the world you live in. I cannot speak for all who read these pieces but I imagine most of us lived in developed countries, each with their own ills and gains. In most of these developed countries, it would be fair to say (in my estimation) that broad access to animal meat and animal product is a gain, no longer reserved for the wealthiest among us. As societies grow more developed, meat is more and more desired historically, so the broad access is vital1. As I have mentioned before howe
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