It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.


What Are People For?: Essays (ed. Counterpoint, 2010) - ISBN: 9781582434872

Wendell Berry Quotes

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own...

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own...

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own...

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own...