The Animals’ Revenge

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I like the idea of exploited animals having some sort of payback, even if it adversely affects kids, who must be regarded as un-knowing victims themselves; if meat is poisonous then a child fed with it, suffering from eating it, is an unknowing victim.  But otherwise, what we have is Nature’s way of evening things up.

On one side, we have the producers, and on the other side the consumers.  When it comes to food, we buy items that are, to some extent, addictive.  Our addiction to our favourite ‘animal’ foods (or other animal products we tell ourselves that we ‘can’t live without’) is essential to the welfare of the Industry, but there’s another nasty twist, and it’s mostly unforseen.  All this producing and consuming and enjoying comes with a sting in the tail – the Animals’ Revenge.

It may be so that, by consuming the (stolen) body parts of animals, there’s a creeping deterioration in human health.  If we ingest them and get used to them, we pay, in more ways than one.  Animal products are excellent health destroyers and therefore good for keeping doctors in business.  Perhaps that’s why most of them don’t advise their patients to avoid using them.  (The doctors themselves are unlikely to be vegan and can’t therefore advise their patients to be this way even if they wanted to).

Animal foods are profitable to the exploiters but just as certainly not so good for the humans who consume them.  Omnivores, along with the hapless animals, are simply victims.  But, to some extent, we humans can look after ourselves.  We can learn and we can change, since we aren’t entirely enslaved, whereas the domesticated animal is entirely helpless.  Vegans are calling for a stop to the production of this animal-based food, because it’s unhealthy (indeed suicidal) but mostly because animals can’t defend themselves against human attack.  Humans act as parasites on the animals, and for a so called advanced species this has to be our most shameful act - we the strong made strong by making the weak weaker.  The exploiter-producers of animal foods, along with the 'knowing' consumers, are certainly long overdue for a dose of the animals’ revenge.

I, for one, am so glad to be shot of it all, to be entirely disassociated from all of it.  I just feel so sorry for the animals themselves and for children who deserve better, whose food-providers are so careless with what they provide for them.