Blake Binford
We live behind a glass wall that provides a distorted view of the natural world. We observe nature through windshields, through living room windows, through the high-definition lenses of nature documentaries. We project a moral order onto the landscape that exists only in our minds. We tell ourselves that we have evolved past the brutality of the food chain, that we are observers of the wild rather than participants in it.
This is a delusion.
The delusion is not that we love nature; it is that we believe we can exist outside of it. Life is expensive. And the currency is death.
"The question is not whether something dies so you can live. It always does. The question is whether you know it, and what you do with that knowledge."From Chapter One
Every calorie is borrowed from a living system. The question is never whether death occurred, only how much, and who is accountable for it.
The combine harvester, the processing plant, the shrink-wrapped package. Outsourced killing is invisible. Invisible does not mean absent.
The non-hunter does not harm nothing. The non-hunter outsources the violence. Distance is a logistical fact, not an ethical one.
Given that eating kills, the only defensible ethics is one that accounts for it honestly and asks how to do it with the least suffering and the most accountability.
You already do what this book defends, but you have never had a philosophical vocabulary for why. You will after this.
You have felt the unease without the framework. This book names what you have already sensed and gives you something to do with it.
Structured like Dawkins, grounded in ecology. Ten chapters, one argument, no intellectual shortcuts.
Defining the delusion of modern innocence.
Doing the math honestly.
How to live honestly with this.
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