An Animal's Place All beings are aware of animal slaughter for food purposes. One may either look away with guilt and still consume meat knowing in fact the process within animal slaughter, or on the crontary, not consume meat at all. Michael Pollan makes several points throughout his journal from “ The New York Times Magazine”, in which he advocates the idea of equality, factory farming, and humane farming. Within his several points, he arrives to a conclusion in which he proclaims that animals’ rights may still be honored during the preparation of the slaughtering of an animal. Equality is one point Pollan shares with his readers, stating that there is not much equality among animals themselves. One statement he made was that “Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig -- an animal easily as intelligent as a dog -- that becomes the Christmas ham” (An Animal's Place, 2002). This view is inevitably agreeable. Pets such as dogs and cats are loved and cared for so much differently than pigs and other farm animals. For some apparent reason, we see farm animals (chickens, cows, and pigs) as just a piece of meat, and nothing else. As for pets, we see them as our children and we do not strive to look forward to the day they take apart from us. Pollan also points out the idea that, “Yet most of the animals we kill lead lives organized very much in the spirit of Descartes, who famously
