1107:
Holding onto the egalitarian
ideal is never going to be easy but here in Australia, with our natural flair
for rethinking everything, we’ve made certain break-throughs, one of which
seems to be our healthy relationships with each other. Snobbery doesn’t exist here. We’re more inclined to build mutually-benefiting
and symbiotic connections.
It’s somewhat different when
animals are brought into the picture. They
are simply part of an exploitation culture - there’s not much ‘symbiosis’ there,
and in this respect Australians are the same as other nationalities. In theory, animals and humans could be
mutually beneficial, but that’s a million miles from what we have today - we
exploit them and we allow them no privileges. Even the apiarist, who transports his hives of
bees to good feeding grounds doesn’t do it for the bees’ sake but in order to get
them making even more honey ... to steal from them.
Even after the animal has
been exploited and used up there’s no thought for the animal itself. They’re sent for slaughter - the last vestiges
of usefulness are drained from the body. Nothing of them is wasted, and that’s
considered to be ‘virtuous efficiency’. As
for retiring the poor exhausted animal in a sanctuary - ya gotta be jokin’!!
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