Conscience, today’s attitude problem

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Not caring about what’s happening to all these animals is simply part of our species’ carelessness and lack of empathy. The main reason we should all alter this attitude is that animals are not inanimate. They’re sentient - they feel, move and have many life-functions similar to ours. So, why do we give the farmer the nod when it comes to enslaving them? Perhaps it’s because, for the majority of humankind, there is a belief in the need for animal foods, spurred on by a taste addiction for them and an economic attraction for these highly subsidised, ‘bargain’ food products. For these reasons most people are prepared to condone a cruel system of animal husbandry.

         

We side-step something we wouldn’t normally be proud to be part of. By supporting what they do to these animals, we sell our humanity, which has been largely achieved by developing our conscience. In so many ways, we humans are the inheritors of brilliant and beneficial discoveries. Not only have many of them been useful but mostly they conform to conscience. But as animal husbandry methods have developed we’ve moved gradually away from any semblance of humanity and today the making of foods based on animal ingredients doesn’t conform to the strictures of conscience. We can’t be proud of having any involvement with modern husbandry. The modern farm, where they practice mutilations and confine animals, is the perfect example of what is patently outside the bounds of conscience.