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Edited by CJ Tointon

Broken Silence

Information doesn't have to be restricted these days.  But there is a 'silence' in the media on certain issues and important stories are going unreported.  In this way, people are 'protected' from knowing the truth;  which is that animals are being routinely attacked on a massive scale!  With a spineless media, held captive by its advertisers, there’s no way ordinary people can be kept informed.  The effect of this silence gives people the impression that nothing bad is happening.

It's incredible that most educated and otherwise well-informed people know so little about cruelty to farm animals.  But it isn’t that surprising when you think of how much conflicting information there is out there.  How can anyone sort out what is true and what isn’t?  Most people just give up trying to find out and revert to their old feeding habits.

What we badly need is one very talented, high profile, brave journalist, who’ll reveal not only the scale of animal cruelty but the cover-up.  The cover-up itself, could become the bigger and more shocking story, because it involves the duping of the public.

There have been stories published about specific atrocities (such as the live export of animals) and there are many organisations who have 'outed' factory farming.  But rarely do we see anyone with the courage to expose the problems of the entire animal trade.  No one ever attempts to comprehensively expose the cruelties and combine it with warnings of the widespread health risks associated with consuming animal protein.  The story is too big!  It would require the financing and heavyweight backing that something like a Royal Commission would warrant.  A story which takes on such broad condemnations would be considered too 'ambitious'.  It would never get up and running in the first place since it wouldn't have enough support from the community who make so much use of so many animals.

Perhaps this is why the time is not yet ripe for talented writers to emerge.  If and when the story is told, it might start with the disastrous health consequences of eating animal-based foods with the added cruelty factor thrown in for good measure.  However, the real impact of the story would concern the scale of the 'cover-up'.  This should outrage people and make them realise to what extent they’d been kept in the dark.

The intention is obviously to keep the covers on the 'animal story' for as long as possible, ideally for many generations to come.  For our kids to be 'information protected' like this is bad enough, but in a world where so many are dying from lack of food, the whole subject of food shortage will one day be critical and the cost of wastefully producing vast amounts of food to feed to animals (so they can be eaten) will be seen for the obscenity it really is. Such waste, on such a massive scale, will only ever be seen as the most unintelligent and inefficient way to feed people.

From the Animal Industry’s point of view, it would seem essential to maintain the silence, the cover-up and the duping of people, for the purpose of lining their pockets.  Eventually, the truth will come out, but in the meantime ('mean' is the word!) they probably hope to make their money and then just cut and run.

    

Once exposed, we’ll see just how these exploiters-of-animals have diced with people’s lives, for the sake of profit.  Their story will tell us one thing in particular, that humans can never to be trusted around animals.  This includes both producers and consumers alike.  They all contribute to the widespread exploitation of animals.  Only when this is fully understood, will the 'cruelty-system' fail, allowing the transition to plant-based lifestyles to take place.

At this point, Vegans will be seen to be valuable for their practical assistance.  But so many things have to happen before that.  We first have to learn the truth, in a major exposé, from one well respected and talented journalist.  But before he or she writes that essential story, there’s a job for us ordinary animal advocates.  In these early days, it’s up to us to lay the ground, to try to catch the eye of the public and keep their awareness ticking over, so that at the right time a talented writer, already Vegan, will not only be capable of writing but will be able to write from a point of personal conscience.