human violence

Humans know how to be violent, but once violence is released does it then control us? Is this how we lose our real power? We think we are superior to animals, so anything they do is equated with inferior or weak behaviour. And yet they could teach us all about non-violent interaction.
Instead we stay violent, continue to exploit animals and non-violence is sidelined. The pressure of the competitive market ups the ante for the producers, specifically animal farmers, and forces them to be ever more violent to stay ahead of the game. For both producer and consumer the way animals are being treated is obviously obscene and any one of them may want "out", but the problem is, those who may want to stop the violence might not have resolved the violence within themselves. Humans can’t liberate animals until they learn to subdue their own violent natures. And so the whole sorry business just continues. What we do to them is bad enough, but it shouldn’t be too surprising to us. The way we treat each other when we disagree really shows us why we aren’t yet in a position to help the animals, even when we want to. The fact is, we don’t understand the peaceful nature of the animals we exploit and we certainly don’t understand how deeply violence is embedded in our own human nature.
We assume animals don’t think or speak. Nor that they have anything important to "talk" about. They just graze and doze. But we know well enough that they interact with one another and with great sensitivity. They can become passionate over sex and territory, but they also show remarkable wisdom in other ways that humans should (and can) learn from. When animals communicate and fight, what does it amount to? They face up to each other, they make their statement (they don’t usually violate each other) and then back off. Their aim is not to defeat or eliminate, but to lock horns. They don’t do violence because they have no need to. Nor do they need to "save-face". Animals don’t have gratuitously violent natures. Isn’t that something we humans can be inspired by?