Looking at the other side

There “could” be many reasons for eating meat, caging animals and experimenting on them. An exploitative approach to animals is certainly advantageous to humans – it’s cheaper and easier all round when you’re the dominant species. It’s especially attractive to urban consumers. Only in the past thirty years (a mere pinprick of time) have we city dwellers known about there being so much cruelty involving ‘food’ animals. But there’s always been some sort of ‘knowing’. It’s a bit like global warming, pollution and starvation. These problems are as old as the hills. And so is our guilt about it all.
Humans have dominated their environment, including the animals, for two million years. Now there’s a chance to change all this. The transition may take as much time as it takes us to realise most of our illnesses are strongly associated with the eating of animals. At that point we’ll say: “This has gone far enough!!” and that will be the time for us to become seriously herbivorous and non-exploitative.