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The Harvest, the Kill by Jane RuleSummary The author of The Harvest, the Kill, Jane Rule has firsthand experience with different judgements on food and ethics of meat eating. Some people are vegetarians because they believe meat to be the cause of diseases and others that believe that humans aren't meant to devour meat. If the author were ever presented with a vast alteration to fundamental agriculturethat would sustain everyone equally, she would accept it gladly but until that were to happen, one person's diet doesn't amount to much thus rendering it useless on a large scale. Moral meat eaters believe in eating only what they have killed themselves so that proper respect is paid to the animals killed for our benefits, an opinion which she is more settled with due to her rural childhood summers. She also believes that the animals we eat should be treated humanely and that by eating abused animals endorses abuse even further. However what baffles her is the taboo associated with cannibalism, why should eating a dead body be so horrifying? Worms and alike would devour the body regardless. She thinks that humans don't admit themselves in the food chain. When a practice becomes taboo, it disguises the real meaning from us. We are what we harvest and kill