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“Those who ate the meat, she claimed, were only indirectly responsible. I took the opposite position, holding that those who benefited at a distance, delegating this terrible work to others while disclaiming responsibility for it, bore more moral responsibility, particularly in contexts like the slaughterhouse, where those with the fewest opportunities in society performed the dirty work.”

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Book:Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
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