Debate: Don’t Eat Anything With A Face

Earlier this month, The Discerning Brute covered promotions for the debate event ‘Don’t Eat Anything with a Face.’It got a lot of press traction. Hosted by the U.S. affiliate of Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. , the debate featured two two-member teams arguing each side of the motion. For the motion were Dr. Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and George Washington University and his debate partner Gene Baur, founder and co-president of Farm Sanctuary. Against the motion were Chris Masterjohn, author of the blog The Daily Lipid (sponsored by the Weston A. Price Foundation), and his debate partner Joel Salatin, public speaker and director of Polyface Farms.

The debate was composed of three rounds, including a question-and-answer with the audience, and to my delight it maintained an intelligent, robust, and precise examination of the motion, Don’t Eat Anything with a Face.