Enter the monster

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Behaviour that is obviously harmful has become approved as being morally okay - it makes us lose our confidence in authority and in Society’s standards of morality.  Watching chickens hanging upside down shackled to a conveyer, their heads being dipped into electrified vats of water to stun them before being conveyed into the revolving blades that will take off their heads - is this okay?  It’s no wonder that people lose faith in Society’s moral codes.

What is so obviously unethical has been legally, officially and morally okayed by our 'authorities'.  And for most people that’s enough of a green light for them to eat chicken.  Similarly when we are told that polluting the atmosphere or spoiling the environment is necessary for the progress of Modern Society, we accept that and it becomes the norm.  Eventually it is no longer questioned.

In the beginning we may have hunted animals on foot, using sharpened spears, and it wasn’t very efficient but it worked to some extent on the predator-predated principle.  All animals lived off each other that way.  Then as time passed, humans overstepped the mark.  We devised ways of using our advantage, to give the animals we wanted to eat no chance.  We devised ways to corral them, capture them, enclose them, enslave them, and kill them at our convenience. In this way the human became a monster.   And the 'innocent' consumer became the monster's assistant.

This is what vegans refuse to have anything to do with.