Chapters 16 & 17

Chapter 16 and 17 were about the omnivore’s dilemma and animal rights. First Pollan talks about rats and how they taste new foods. We’re like them in the way that we are cautious about tasting new foods, we don’t wait 30 minutes after our first bite but we take small bites and wait for the taste of the new food to reach our taste buds. I thought it was interesting that the reason pregnant women are so sensitive to bitter foods is to protect the baby inside her from even the mildest of plant toxins. I’ve never thought about the fact that if we were to run out of one type of food we like, that we could easily survive on many other types of foods anywhere. Animals like the koalas can’t do that, they can only survive on one type of food.
In the debate of if eating animals is ethical. I think comparing animals and humans, to black people and white people, is a horrible comparison. I feel like those are two different problems. Black and white people… are people. I think that a human life is much more valuable than an animal life. I do feel that animals should be treated fair, however, I would never be a vegetarian and there really isn’t a humane way to kill an animal. Any way you look at it, you’re still killing it.