The Exploiter Classes

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Edited by CJ Tointon

If we want to help clean up today's mess, we have to home in on two specific things:  the waste connected to pollution and the cruelty connected to animal slavery.  They're both dark forces familiar to the wealthy exploiters who are running the animal-exploiting industries.  Their grip on things needs to be weakened.  We should all withdraw our support from them.  We should all stop spending our money on the goods they produce.  Anyone who does this will be making a difference.  They will be liberated and at the same time, they will be supporting the liberation of animals.

The exploiters are often kind and loving towards their family.  They might see themselves as good, caring people, believing that 'charity starts at home', believing in a better world for their grandchildren.  Their charity doesn't extend much further, however.  They care less about the community or about 'the greater good' - especially if by doing so, it affects their profits!  They like acquiring money and have little empathy for anything or anyone from which they make their money.

I was listening to one of them, a hunter, on the radio.  He farmed animals and loved guns!  He was trying to justify the pleasure he got from pulling the trigger on a moving animal.  He couldn’t say what it was, except that it felt 'natural' to him.  He’d done it since he was a boy.   Animal farming and hunting - that's how he and his family had always made their living (as well as getting their kicks)!  It seems this type of person is used to finding opportunities and taking advantage of weaknesses.  It's 'in the blood' (no pun intended).  They see dollars in everything.  Where most people see a forest in terms of beauty, they see the trees as lumber.  Where most people couldn't kill an animal, the exploiter has no trouble doing so, or employing someone who’ll do the messy business for them.

The consumer, for some unknown reason, respects these people, perhaps even admires them, for doing what they can't do.  And with all this support, the exploiters come to believe that they are doing nothing wrong.  How can they be wrong when they enjoy the support of so many dollar-spending customers?

Perhaps we should regard exploiters as spoilt brats and consumers as weak parents.  The longer children believe they can get away with bad behaviour, the longer they will.  And, unstopped, they'll grow towards being 'monsters', becoming all the more dangerous the stronger they get.