<dh@.> wrote
> I consider it to be very significant that the animals we raise for
> food,
> do NOT know they will be killed and eaten as Salt's Logic of the Talking
> "ar" Pig and Chicken Run dishonestly encourage people to believe they do.

Salt's essay on The Logic of the Larder does not imply that animals know
they are destined to be killed and eaten. The "talking pig" is an
allegorical tool intended to address the conscience and attitudes of the
reader/consumer.