Vegetarian Star

“Zuckerberg is known for taking on personal challenges, and he believes people “should take responsibility and be thankful for what they eat rather than trying to ignore where it came from.” Zuckerberg deserves credit for getting at least halfway through a mental lesson most people never bother to start. A new personal challenge could be for him to take this thought process to its logical conclusion, and to then act.”

“Zuckerberg is right. People don’t want to know the truth about the suffering and death that goes into their meat.”

“But Mr. Zuckerberg falls a bit short by not taking the thought where it obviously wants to go: Suffering and death are not only so meaningful that we should be compelled to see them, but they are so because qualitatively, and inescapably, they are horrifying things.”

“Yes, we should know the pain and death we cause when we eat meat – but that means truly feeling and absorbing the horror they entail. And, yes, if we have done that, because we would not want to experience these things, we will not inflict them on others. Mr. Zuckerberg’s next personal challenge could be to act on this insight and go vegan. Doing so would show animals not just the attention but also the compassion they, like us, yearn for.”

—Carter Dillard, Director of Litigation for the Animal Legal Defense Fund on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s decision to only eat animals he personally kills, which has made him almost completely vegetarian. More of Dillard’s column can be found on the ADLF’s blog.

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