Broken silence

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Today information doesn’t have to be restricted, there just needs to be a silence in the media where stories are kept unreported, and in that way people are ‘protected’ from knowing, in this case, that animals are being routinely attacked on a massive scale. With a spineless media, held captive by its advertisers, there’s no way ordinary people can be kept informed - the effect of this silence gives people the impression that nothing bad is actually happening because whatever is happening isn’t worth reporting on.
It might seem incredible that educated and otherwise well informed people know so little about cruelty to farm animals, but it isn’t that surprising when you think of how much conflicting information there is. How can anyone sort out what is true and what isn’t? Most people give up trying to find out and revert to habit.
What we so badly need is one high profile and brave journalist who’ll reveal not only the scale of animal cruelty but the cover-up which, in itself, would be the bigger and more shocking story ... because it involves the duping of the public.
There have been stories published about specific atrocities such as the live export of animals, and there are many organisations who have outed factory farming but none have had the courage to expose the much bigger problem of the entire animal trade. None ever attempts to comprehensively expose the cruelties and combine it with warnings of the widespread health risks associated with consuming animal protein because it’s too big; it’s been considered too ambitious to take on such a broad condemnation since it would not have enough support from the community who make so much use of so many animals. This is why, perhaps, the time is not yet ripe for a writer to surface. If and when the story is told, it might start out with the disastrous health consequences of animal food with the added cruelty factor thrown in for good measure. But the real impact of the story would concern the scale of the cover-up. And I think it’s that which could ultimately outrage people - that they’d been kept in the dark for so long and had been meant to be kept so for many generations to come.
For our kids to be ‘information protected’ like this is bad enough but in a world where so many are dying from lack of food, the cost of wastefully producing vast amounts of food to feed to animals (so they can be eaten) is an obscene waste on a massive scale - it being such an inefficient way to feed people.
The silence, the cover-up and the duping of people seems to be essential for lining the pockets of the Animal Industries. Eventually they must know that the truth will come out ... but I suppose they hope to make their money and then, presumably, just cut and run.
Once exposed, the story of how they’ve diced with the quality of people’s lives for the sake of profit will tell us one thing in particular, that humans are not to be trusted around animals. Both consumers and producers alike contribute to the widespread exploitation of animals, and once that is fully understood then I’m sure the system will fail. And as it fails to provide the animal products people are used to, so the transition to plant-based lifestyles will take place.
It occurs to me that, at this point, vegans would be in a position to provide valuable practical assistance ... but so many things have to happen before that - we first have to learn the truth from a major exposé from one well respected and talented journalist. And before he or she writes that essential story the ground must be laid by ordinary animal advocates, to catch the eye of the public (including that one talented writer who would obviously have to already be vegan).