Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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It's not hard to imagine 20, 50, 200 years from now,
When the variety of food, food science options are so vast and the problems of raising animals to eat is so difficult that people will look back on our time and say, what was wrong with these people?
I mean, they were just eating meat all the time and they didn't have to?
They must not have understood what they were doing.
No, we know exactly what we're doing.
We know exactly what we're doing.
Yeah, I mean, it's Quaker publicists and polemicists who really start pushing the...
between the natural rights discourse and the commitment to slaveholding.
And they're very creative and very persistent about drawing leading political figures, leading spokesmen of the colonial cause to think about the issue.
There's a kind of...
a self-awareness that begins to develop in the political community in the North American colonies, where they kind of hear how the words sound in their own ears, and they recognize that this is...
an unpleasant contradiction.
And they've got various ways of excusing it, some of which are racial, some of which are practical, some of which are denial, evasion, the projection of guilt in other places.
But there's a kind of a way that it becomes this sort of a feature
of the broader public consciousness in the decade before the Declaration of Independence.
And it especially becomes part of the public consciousness because polemicists on the other side of the Atlantic who think the American rebels are full of it make the point that, say, listen, you guys don't actually believe in natural rights.
If you believed in natural rights, you wouldn't be slaveholders.
And again, from England, it's very easy to say because there's basically no slaveholding of any significance in England itself.
It's very much in the way that British writers and politicians think about it.
It's very much of an American practice.
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