Self deception

Both farmer and consumer alike have attempted to deanimate the animate. It’s like staging a coup d’état on Nature. We’ve attempted to neuter whole swathes of species for personal use. Over the years we’ve executed billions of animals, none of whom were indicted or brought to trial for any crime. None have deserved any of the punishments we’ve dished out. It’s just been a wash of conscience-crushing cruelty and destruction. By doing harm like this we humans have brought upon ourselves the greater worry of all - pretending to ourselves that what happens to animals doesn’t actually happen!! What we do by manipulating our perceptions like this harms us in a fundamental way, by our believing something when we know it isn’t so.