Soft-bellied Vegetarians

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Many humans don’t pay much attention to developing a philosophical basis to their  lives, or at least they don’t stray too far into the world of original thinking.  These humans are inclined to focus on the interests of humans only to the detriment of other life forms. I think they do it because it’s where the applause is loudest, where their own way of thinking is likely to be confirmed.

To be loyal to our own species at the expense of other species is anthropocentrism.  You’d find it ridiculous if I said, torturing humans is okay if it’s done humanely.  Torture can never be humanely administered.  But we have a different set of rules when it comes to non-humans and how they can be treated.   One could say that lacto-ovo vegetarians accept the torture of animals as long as it's done humanely.  Their policy is that it's OK to use some animals as long as they're not killed for their meat.  They say we can exploit them, take their babies, exhaust them, prematurely age them and keep them in confinement with no semblance of social or sexual life until they’re of no further use to humans.  All this is acceptable to the lacto-ovo-vegetarian, as long as they don’t actually eat their flesh.  If they don’t eat meat they can still call themselves vegetarians. Their hypocrisy is astounding.

Here are examples of grossly abused animals.  A dairy cow who ‘gives’ her milk, which is denied to her calf who is then disposed of.  The dairy cow is executed when milk production drops below a certain level.  There’s the hen who ‘gives’ us eggs (the male chick is disposed of) and the sheep who ‘gives’ us the wool from its back (exposing it to sunburn and exposure) and again, both are sent for execution after they’ve given as much as they can give.  Each of these animals lives in appalling conditions and/or loses their offspring, and each one of them is slaughtered in the abattoir when they can no longer provide enough milk, eggs or wool, respectively.

Could any fair-weather vegetarian stand up and say they don’t connive with the torturers?

Ed: CJ