How exploiting works

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 and the consumer can enjoy them as a product. Unlike the animals we have at home, the farmer feels nothing for these animals as individuals and the consumer doesn’t either.
We’re trained from an early age to see these animals as ugly, or at least not cuddly or cute. This means we won’t feel affection for them. We see them as ‘beasts’. This word sounds sharp and it is used to describe people who act disgustingly, therefore denigrating animals and making them seem disgusting. Indeed these beasts are, through no fault of their own, disgusting, since they usually live in filthy conditions.
If ordinary people have no feelings for them and farmers don’t either, what chance to they have? They’re kept 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 living on one farm all their lives, almost like a child in the family, but at the appointed time they are let go without a second thought. The animal is transferred to another person and thence to another place 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.
To the farmer it makes more sense if care had never been shown in the first place, then the theory is: what was never known can’t be missed. On this reckoning animals are subjected to the most inexpensive board and lodging. No emotional attachments are made and the farmer’s children are encouraged not to pet them. They are treated as machines (laying eggs, giving milk, getting fat enough ‘for market’) and when no longer economically useful they’re executed.