Animal Cruelty In An Animal's Place By Michael Pollan

Animal cruelty has always been a challenge that gets overlooked by society in the food market. Many people do not take into consideration the life of the cow, chicken, or pig, and lots of other animals, while enjoying their juicy hamburger, chicken leg, and bacon. “An Animal’s Place” by Michael Pollan argues about animal liberation while using support from Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation” book. Peter Singer is pro animal rights and has converted lots and outs of people over to vegetarianism, while Michael Pollan loves steak and seeks to see if Singer could convert him as well. Our world changes consistently with the trends of our society, from the civil rights movements of blacks and women, to the legalization of gay marriage. Animal liberation is seen as the next logical step in our society but, we are far from it actually happening. The truth is we do not see anything of what is actually happening to the animals on large corporate farms and factories. This is something done on purpose to …show more content…
“This becomes clear one we become clearer about the idea of cruelty itself” (Regan 533). Tom Regan in “Cruelty, Kindness, and Unnecessary Suffering” covers the concept of cruelty well and explains many things to take into consideration when deciding how far you must go to consider something to be cruel. Cruel people are not cruel just because they cause someone or something suffering but, they also have to enjoy the inaction of causing the suffering to someone or something. Someone can unconsciously cause suffering without consciously knowing that they are doing it. Regan’s example, “Thus a man, without provocation, beats a dog into unconsciousness is actively cruel, whereas one who, through negligence, fails to feed his pet to the point where his dog’s health is impoverished is passively cruel, not because of what he does but because of what he fails to do” (Regan