Saturday, June 7, 2014

Convenient Untruth

1075: 

In our culture, when ‘the authorities’ tell us to eat foods derived from animals, we listen to what they say.  We want to believe them, especially if the foods they promote include yummy animal-foods.  They advise us that meat makes us strong.  It’s essential.  It’s okay to kill animals.  “Their lives are terminated in a humane way”, we are told.
           
Animal Rights addresses ethics.  It calls on two issues - slavery and killing.  We dispute that animals are either ‘looked after’ whilst alive or killed ‘humanely’.  But the facts and pictures so obviously speak for themselves. I doubt if anyone would try to argue that animal farming is NOT cruel or that slaughtering is NOT cruel.  

The authorities put it about that vegans want to subvert Society.  They don’t actually say this in so many words, because that would draw attention to our opposition-voice - they’d rather people ignored the issues altogether than try to dispute them.  They don’t much care what people think as long as they continue buying their products and continue to believe that they live in a comfortable, humane world.


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