Coetzee on animals as "production units"

[Mark Kohut]

I heard two philosophers debate a section--separately published---of J. M. Coetze's novel where this link is presented...the protagonist of the novel was a woman , a writer and a vegetarian, who argued her case (partly) this way.
   
  Either she or one of the philosophers---Stanely Cavell or John(?) McDermott---thought the source was in Heidegger(!)....at least the source of mechanical processing of food linked to
  the mechanism of life.......
   
  I posted the wiki connection on the stockyards and the Holocaust with this in mind....
   
  Great find, John.
   
  

John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote:
      "The transformation of animals into production units dates back to the late 19th century, and since that time we have already had one warning on the grandest scale that there is something deeply, cosmically wrong with regarding and treating fellow beings as mere units of any kind. This warning came so loud and clear that one would have thought it impossible to ignore. It came when in the mid-20th century a group of powerful and bloody-minded men in Germany hit on the idea of adapting the methods of the industrial stockyard, as pioneered and perfected in Chicago, to the slaughter - or what they preferred to call the processing - of human beings."
   
  http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/animals-cant-speak-for-themselves--its-up-to-us/2007/02/21/1171733841769.html
  
  
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