The unthinking approach

The original principle of non-violence is behind everything Animal Rights stands for. With that in place and agreed to, it follows that the sovereignty of animals is secure. To us it’s obviously impossible to justify hurting them, and yet they are attacked and hurt and murdered daily, en masse. Humans in authority let this happen and presumably most people can justify this.
Since people haven’t thought much about non-violence their behaviour continues, unquestioned – they eat meat knowing the animals they eat met a violent death. Eat them we do, because we want to taste it.. We can’t resist the T-bone steak. And what is this ‘resist’? We’re not used to resisting things we want. That’s a given.
And so we have a society involved with daily mass murder of innocent animals and consequently there is a chaos in both human ethics and health. There could be worse chaos if we didn’t have laws to prevent certain crimes, so rape and child molestation is outlawed because we can’t have a society where there’s a free for all, where women and kids are exploited.
But there are no laws to prevent the crimes against animals, so we have true chaos when it comes to them. Because these animals have never been protected by law, the consumer thinks it’s okay to prey on them. When we’re out shopping for food, we forget that we’re interested in non-violence and we take the easy way out. “Hang it, I’ll do what I’ve always done”! “Everyone else does it so why shouldn’t I?”