The animals’ revenge

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I’m glad not to be part of the exploiter class, even though I sometimes work for them and see the splendour of their houses, cars, fine clothes and expensive belongings. I’m also glad not to be too closely involved with political corporations, which aren’t too fussy about the ‘natural resources’ they exploit. The corporations and those who run them - for them, rule number one is to succeed or perish. They face fierce competition from each other, and if they don’t succeed they let down their shareholders. In some ways they have many advantages, in other ways their lives are unenviable.
Today’s shareholders in the animal food and clothing industries demand good profits. Business-wise, they attempt to monopolise their market by sending competitors broke if they can. They conserve their assets, expand at every opportunity and play every dirty trick in the book to keep their advantage … in that way they stay afloat and keep their customers happy. They are the producers: we the consumers ... and especially ‘all-consuming’ when it comes to food. We buy items that are, to some extent, addictive. Our addiction to our favourite ‘animal’ foods (or other animal products we ‘can’t live without’) is essential to the welfare of the Industry but there’s another nasty twist, that all this producing and consuming and enjoying is The Animals’ Revenge. It may be so that, by consuming the (stolen) body parts of animals, there’s a creeping deterioration in our metabolism. If we ingest them and get used to them, we pay … in more ways than one. Animal products are excellent health destroyers and therefore good for keeping doctors in business. Perhaps that’s why most of them don’t advise their patients to avoid them or even to follow a vegan diet.
Animal foods are profitable to the exploiters but just as certainly not so good for the humans who consume them. We, along with the hapless animals, are simply victims. But, to some extent, we humans can look after ourselves. We can learn and we can change since we aren’t entirely enslaved, whereas the domesticated animal is helpless. Entirely. Vegans are calling for a stop to it because it’s unhealthy and suicidal but more so because animals can’t defend themselves against human attack. It’s bullying in its worst form. We act as parasites on the animals and for a so called advanced species this is a shameful act - the strong made strong by making the weak weaker. I, for one, am so glad to be shot of it, to disassociate from all that.