Animal rights

        In my future of food course this topic of course came up. The author, Michael Pollan of The Omnivores Dilemma began discussing the topic if animal rights. In the seventeenth chapter of the book, Pollan is reading Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation, while dining on a large piece of steak. Though these two things should not be enjoyed in the same setting, he does this in order to , I feel, spite Singer's argument that animals should not be eaten. This has been a long standing argument and believe it or not many philosophers have debated if animals should be eaten, and if they poses a true soul or do they lack a soul. It is also debated how much alike the animals we eat are to us humans who are also considered animals. The argument Pollan presents is an interesting one because it is a two sided argument. It is like good vs bad, omnivore vs vegetarian etc. On thing that I do want to question though is looking at this philosophically do animals have a soul or are they void of emotion. Many philosophers and scientists have come to the conclusion that the only thing that separates humans from other animals is our concept and understanding of death. We are no different from animals than in this one way. We know that death is coming and that as the days, even hours, pass we are getting closer and closer to death. I am a few minutes older and a few minutes closer to death than when I first started this blog. That is the reason why many people say that it is wrong for us to eat meat, they say that animals are like us in so many ways that eating the animal is like eating another human. Also, it is looked at as morally wrong what the animal has to go through in order to suffice a human's need. Though this is true, I do believe that many people are entitled to their own choice. So, with that said the question I want to ask is, Do you think animals possess a soul or are they void of it and is just a mere "subject of life"?