Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/623/en

itself, because it has no I that wishes to live itself out. The human being has an I and claims its food for what it needs for itself in the living-out of its self-consciousness. The cow yields its surplus force to the heightened life-performances, such as reproduction, growth — that is, the production of milk and flesh — as well as, in connection with the "I-disposition," the manure and liquid manure, and through these, as an enlivening and ensouling fertiliser, to the earth. The measure by which these surplus forces are distributed between the production and value-formation of foodstuffs on the one hand and the value-formation of manure on the other is determined, in the first instance by way of nature, by the soul body of the cow. When this measure is in balance, health, longevity, and a high value-quality of the manure arise. The human being of the present has managed to shift this wisdom-filled measure by compulsion in favour of a quantitative maximum performance. The health of the animals suffers from this, just as do food quality and the value of the manure. In factory farming, the question of the quality of the manure — in the sense of the lasting potency of its enlivening and ensouling working — no longer arises at all. What stands in the foreground instead is the disposal problem of the slurry accumulating in mass quantities. The organism principle, by contrast, has the right measure immanent within it.