A slight slip in our brain function

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The road to human ‘monsterdom’ started when we chased animals on horseback with guns, grew closer to becoming monsters by making it even easier for ourselves, by herding them, capturing them and breeding them in captivity.  We stole the animals' sovereignty for the sake of our own convenience.  We used our greater brain power to take advantage of weaker beings, in order to enhance our food supply and make things easier for ourselves.  We made the 'lesser' species our slaves, in order to keep them, use them, fatten them, kill them and eat them.

Because each stage of the process happened over a long period of time, each successive generation has hardly noticed the gradual descent of humans into monsterdom.  We became so dazzled by the potentials of having a big brain that we let part of that function slip - as our brain function increased we lost control of it.  Like a car with a fine engine, every effort was put into improving its speed without due attention to the quality of the brakes.  We are now hurtling along at a fantastic speed but have no idea how to slow down.  Our improvements for minimising inconvenience to our selves have lost sight of our essential relationship with the world we live in and rely on.  Our relationship with animals is more like a cold and clinical substance abuse rather than a predation involving a fair fight or a chase.  We've taken away from the non-human element any chance of self defence.  Factory farming is the logical extension of our indifference to the victim.  It's difficult to find a better example of cruelty than those farming procedures which we've come to accept as normal today.

Vested interests persuade consumers to spend much of their money on animal products.  As consumers, we’re either not very educated about where our food comes from or we prefer to stay ignorant for obvious reasons.  We’re lulled into a false sense of security by people whose living depends on selling animal products.  The consumer is happy for these vested interests to do what they do as long as they provide what we can not provide for ourselves.