Disconnection

Because the law allows the exploitation of animals, none of it registers as a crime, whether it be the caging of animals in zoos, the experimenting on them in laboratories, the suffocating of fish on decks or the ultimately disgusting factory farming of pigs and chickens.
For the mass of the population, there has to be a ‘disconnect’ between two great forces – the inner beauty of our own humanity versus inner food craving. Animal food is so endemic in our community that it affects the educated and rich in much the same way as the uneducated and poor. We all fall for it. And whether or not we’re religious we’re seduce-able. Our number one impulse is to find food enjoyment.
No. 2 impulse may be to self-justify what we do. It helps to win social acceptance but it’s not as powerful as No.1 – food and mouth pleasure centre. Rarely if ever do we feel the need to justify ANY of it. The provenance of our food doesn’t interest us, as adults. But it can bother children when they first find out about ‘what happens to animals’ . . . and yet kids aren’t in any position to complain. They do what they’re told. They have to or they’d starve or at least not get lots of yummy things they DO like. They conform. We all did. And the dinner table isn’t usually the conformity we mind. Mum dishes up ready-to-eat food, and some of it is so yummy we craved it. We are programmed to include animal products in that catagory.
When we come to adulthood we have decisions to make, and this provenance thing over food is one of them. Should we or shouldn’t we?