The animals’ revenge

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I’m glad not to be one of the exploiter class. I sometimes find myself working for them and see the splendour of their houses, cars, fine clothes and expensive belongings. I’m also glad not to be too closely involved with political corporations, which aren’t too fussy about the ‘natural resources’ they exploit. The corporations, and those who run them, for them the rule number one is - to succeed. They face fierce competition from each other, both here and from overseas. They must not fail, even if only for their shareholders' sake. In many ways, their lives are unenviable. They conserve their assets, expand at every opportunity and play every dirty trick in the book to keep their advantage. In that way they stay afloat and keep their customers happy. They are the producers: we the consumers. And we're especially ‘all-consuming’ when it comes to food.

We buy items that are, to some extent, addictive. Our addiction to our favourite ‘animal’ foods (or other animal products we ‘can’t live without’) is essential to the Industry but there’s another nasty twist, that all this producing and consuming and enjoying is The Animals’ Revenge.

It may be so that, by so carelessly tampering with the genetics and chemical composition of animal bodies, and then by consuming the (stolen) body parts of these animals, there’s a payback in the form of a creeping deterioration in our own metabolism. The animals we eat are unhealthy creatures and if we ingest them and get used to them, we pay dearly. Animal products are health destroyers and good for keeping doctors in business. Perhaps that’s why most of them don’t advise their patients to follow a vegan diet.

Animal foods are profitable to the exploiters but just as certainly not so good for the humans who consume them. We, along with the hapless animals, are simply victims. But, to some extent, we humans can look after ourselves. We can learn and we can change since we aren’t entirely enslaved, whereas the domesticated animal is helpless. Entirely. And vegans are calling for a stop to all animal farming not only because it’s unhealthy and suicidal but because animals can’t defend themselves against their human attackers. So what we do to them is bullying in its worst form. We act as parasites on the animals. For a so called 'advanced' species this is shameful. It's an example of the strong made strong by making the weak weaker. I, for one, am so glad to be out of it.