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By associating with the
cage-building anti-altruists, by buying their products, consumers condone what
they have done to animals. In other words, they show their acceptance of
cruelty when it comes to the production of food and clothing from animals.
Since we humans have
corralled and kept animals captive for our own convenience, we have learnt the
benefits of cruelty. We know it is
opposite to empathy, just as we know that it runs counter to the central tenet
of altruism. But nevertheless we do it,
'for the best' - our best.
Take eggs for instance. Scarce during the hungry times of the second
world war, but afterwards plentiful.
When we allowed the cage to be used as an emergency means of feeding
hungry people, we neglected to write in a twilight clause, and so it has continued.
Now 'caged' eggs are mass produced,
available everywhere, and cheap. The
food industry uses them liberally to make their products rich and attractive. People
are hooked on them, and like so many other animal products, we buy them because
we like the taste of them.
Perhaps people didn’t see the
ethical dangers when factory farming started. All those lovely cheap eggs, and who knew or
cared where they came from? Boycotting
the battery cage would have proved very inconvenient for all concerned, so it
continued. The animal industries were
proud to be supplying cheap food, and consumers were dazzled by the new
food-aplenty improvements to their lifestyle.
Too bad if billions of animals had to suffer.
We thought we were going to
get away with it - at last it was proven that humans can rule Nature, by
perfecting the enslavement of animals. Score
to date: humans one: animals zero.
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