A slip in our brain function

Where did it all go so wrong? We started to take advantage of animals’ defencelessness when we took to horses and chased them with guns. Now we’ve made it even easier for ourselves by herding them, capturing, breeding them, killing them and then eating them. It’s brutal and it’s all done with minimum inconvenience to ourselves. It is a long way from the original fair fight or equal chase!
In this age of factory farming, we’ve done a global warming job on our ethics. Even though it may merely be a slip in the brain function of the human, it is nevertheless a crucial one. We see our own vain image reflected back to us in the panic we feel over the current ‘climate-change’ threat. In terms of our treatment of captive animals there should be a similar panic and a consequent massive reduction in our cruelty emissions. For that to happen the liberation of animals must be the first step, where we rescue animals from the dangerous clutches of the ‘users’. We can no longer rely on society’s codes of morality to keep us ethical.
From the point of view of vested interests, morality has served a useful purpose. It has mobilised consumers into spending their money on goods - such as animal products. The animal industries have put their products out there, everywhere. The consumer uses them without a second thought.
On this train of plenty, people ride in complete confidence with the promise of better times ahead. As consumers, we’re not usually educated about food. We are lulled into a false sense of security by people misinform in order to sell their product. They make sure we are never morally challenged by using animal products. But in the use of them we each buy a ticket to ride the death train.
We all (nearly all) ride the same train and know it will carry us all the way to our destination. The train driver seems to know where the train is going and for that reason alone it wouldn’t occur to most of us to get off and walk the tracks instead. If we keep our seat on this train, by accepting its authority, we agree with its version of right and wrong. Most people accept the given morality of their society, of their parents and the majority with whom they identify. People follow morality as spoken by priests, politicians and teachers, even though it has been weakened by double standards. We don’t want to notice that the driver of this train has well and truly lost his way.