Conspiracy

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I see conspiracy everywhere when it comes to humans using animals. I prefer to call it a ‘conspiracy’ since animals are so easy to conspire against, simply by ignoring them or downgrading the importance of them. Their ‘issues’ have always been downgraded by vested interests, and we ‘bleeding hearts’ and ‘lettuce leaf eaters’ are duly denigrated for being on the animals’ side. Central to the conspiracy, doubly insulating it, is the ridiculing of the anti-meat lobby. It’s as big a part of the promotion game as TV advertising of chicken nuggets.
Conspiracy theories often raise a smile. But some of them are such serious perversions of truth that there’s no other word to describe them. In this instance we have health issues not being linked to animal food, animal farming having a benign effect on the environment, unfair food distribution being unconnected with malnutrition. The links are obvious enough once you dare to look at this particular conspiracy to pervert the course of truth.
Is this too much to take on board? Too overwhelming an idea? That animals are our meat and not much more?
Easy-to-see-through conspiracies attempt to conceal what’s going on? Animal use is nearly always exploitative yet legal by dint of Society’s sanctioning of violence. If you do see all you can do is disassociate yourself from it. And then perhaps speak out against it.
This is what many vegans are doing. From our perspective so many of the major issues of the day can be closely connected to violence or the unthinkingness of going along with what the next person does. And when it comes to the abuse of animals, mainly in their use as food, it is always about violence.
If we Earthlings were to be seen by an outsiders, we’d come across as cold, hard and cruel, if only because we condone routine cruelty perpetrated on millions of captive animals.
It’s useful to see our Society through the prism of violence, as a thread that links the rape of the environment with the rape of animal life with the destruction of bodies and minds. By developing habits of non-violence we can counteract or at least minimise our negative impact on the planet. And that starts in the kitchen, with food change. By boycotting animal products we atone for what humans have done to the animals. Who could deny that domesticated animals are not the MOST abused and damaged of Nature’s children.