" We are constantly told that concern over the "supposed cruelties of farming," as Stephen Budiansky puts it in "The Covenant of the Wild," is a product of the soft "urban" mind-set, unaccustomed to the harsh realities of rural life. Another way of looking at this is that the "urban" types are not steeped in the ways of blood spilling and have no financial and emotional attachments to the practices in question. In other contexts, that's usually called objectivity. "

― Matthew Scully , Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy