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If we can’t drop animal
products how can we be peacemakers? When
we go shopping for animals or sit down to eat them we encourage the assault on
them. We waste our own chances of happiness,
having this perpetually on our conscience. We waste the happiness of the animals too. From their point of view, we humans are their
only hope. If some of us aren’t willing
to defend them, they’re lost. By buying
slaughterhouse products we effectively play a central role in the
slaughterhouse process.
The production of the egg has
come to represent the worst of this violence, in the form of mass consumer
compliance. By taking no notice of the
ingredient lists on packaging, when I buy a packet of biscuits, made with
ingredients that include egg, I’m complaint with the caging of hens. As a biscuit eater I might not want to know
about egg-laying hens and their circumstances, only wanting something as simple
as ‘a biscuit’. But whether I know the
ingredients’ background or not, the fact is my biscuit contains something that
can’t be justified. The egg used in the
biscuit recipe undoubtedly comes out of the battery system. The biscuit manufacturer isn’t concerned about
using ethical raw materials.
Egg production – most people
wouldn’t approve of the current system, not up-front anyway. But if an egg is used and we buy it in
whatever form, we compromise what, otherwise, has made us into caring people. How pathetic, to be seduced by a biscuit!
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