The nature of exploiting

It’s a nasty trait, taking what isn’t ours. But we do love a bargain. And domestic animals seem like a bargain, in terms of producing food for us to eat. They’re easy to handle and easy to keep captive. The animal exploiter can make money out of them by seeing them as a resource and using them like machines, for producing food and clothing for human use. Unlike the animals we have at home, the farmer feels nothing for these animals as individuals.
And who would disagree? These ones are ugly, not cuddly and we can’t feel affection for them. We train ourselves, and our kids, to see them as ‘beasts’ (just the sound of the word is sharp and is used against people who act disgustingly - it therefore denigrates animals and makes them seem disgusting). Indeed these beasts are disgusting, since they usually live in filthy conditions.
If ordinary people have no feelings for them and farmers don’t either, it seems justified to keep them in slum conditions, and when the time comes these animals are transferred like so many shares in a company, to the next owner. They may have been in-care since birth, almost like a child in the family, but at the appointed time they are let go without a second thought. The animal is to be transferred to another person and thence to another place which has been specifically designed to destroy them … money is exchanged, the deal is done, and if there had ever been any care shown towards them it is now forgotten about.