[iancmceachern]

We have this weird attitude in the last couple decades. There is this thought that the factory farms of the last few decades apply to and are the same thing as the gradual development of agriculture and animal husbandry that lead out species out of the animal world into the human one.

Agriculture, animal raising, these are what separate us from our ancestors, these are what enable civilization

Horses, cows, dogs, cats, other livestock. These animals have made us what we are, and us them. They and our modern civilization are inextricably tied.

[hombre_fatal]

None of this story-telling gets us closer to the answer to the question of how a given food in what quantities impacts our health to what degree and in which direction.

Thankfully we have a better epistemic technology than just-so stories: the scientific method.