If at the end of each person's life he were to be presented with the living spectacle of all that he had organismically incorporated in order to stay alive,he might well feel horrified at the living energy that he had ingested.
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The horizon of a gourmet, or even the average person, would be taken up with hundreds of chickens, flocks of lambs and sheep, a small herd of steers, sties full of pigs, and rivers of fish. The din alone would be deafening.
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To paraphrase Elias Canetti, each organism raises its head over a field of corpses, smiles into the sun, and declares life good.
--- Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil