Evolution of conscience

Being blasé about animal treatment - why does this matter? Simply because we’re side stepping something we wouldn’t be proud to be part of. By supporting cruelty we’ve sold down the river our hard won humanity, which has been achieved by the vigorous use of our conscience. We’re the inheritors of an ancestral list of brilliant and beneficial human discoveries. Not only have many of them been useful to us but mostly they’ve conformed to conscience … but food doesn’t appear in this list. We can’t be proud of what we’ve discovered here. ‘Food’ is not only associated now with danger since so much of it today is so badly tainted but with mind boggling levels of cruelty. The modern farm, where they practice mutilations and confine animals, is the perfect example of what is patently outside the bounds of conscience.