Friday, August 29, 2014

"WE ARE MOVING MEAT"

A. L. Kennedy, On Bullfighting (London: Yellow Jersey Press, 1999) ("I believe that human beings are animals. By this, I mean that humanity does not prosper and, indeed, endangers its long-term survival by forgetting that it is reliant upon, and connected to, the animal world. Our fundamentals are 'animal' -- we eat, we defecate, we procreate, we die -- we are moving meat." "I do not mean by this that we can excuse our excesses of inhumanity by tracing their roots back to 'animal' behaviour." Id. at 83.).