Conscience, today’s attitude problem

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Not caring about what’s happening to all these animals is simply part of the predominant carelessness of humans. The reason we have to alter this attitude is that animals are not inanimate. They feel, move and have many life-functions similar to us. So, why do we give the farmer the nod to enslave them? Perhaps it’s because, for the majority of humankind, there is a belief in the need for animal foods, spurred on by taste addiction for them and an economic attraction for these highly subsidised, ‘bargain’ food products. For that we condone a cruel system of animal husbandry.
Being blasé about animal treatment - why does it matter? Simply because we’re side stepping something we wouldn’t normally be proud to be part of. By supporting cruelty we’ve sold our hard won humanity, which has been largely achieved by way of following our sophisticated conscience. We’re the inheritors of brilliant and beneficial human discoveries. Not only have many of them been useful but mostly they’ve conformed to conscience … but the development of animal husbandry methods and the making of foods based on animal ingredients ... don’t conform to conscience one little bit. We can’t be proud of what we’ve discovered here. The modern farm, where they practice mutilations and confine animals, is the perfect example of what is patently outside the bounds of conscience.