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Not caring about what’s
happening to all these animals is simply part of the predominant carelessness
of humans. The reason we have to alter this attitude is that animals are not
inanimate. They feel, move and have many life-functions similar to us. So, why
do we give the farmer the nod to enslave them, torture them, kill them and eat
them? Perhaps it’s because, for the majority of humankind, we like eating them.
There’s a belief in the need for animal foods, spurred on by taste addiction
for them and an economic attraction for these highly subsidised, ‘bargain’ food
products. For that, we condone a cruel system of animal husbandry.
Being blasé about animal
treatment begs the question: why does it matter? Simply because we’re side
stepping something we wouldn’t normally be proud to be part of. By supporting
cruelty, we’ve sold our hard won humanity for a handful of beans, o rather
animal flesh. We’re the inheritors of brilliant and beneficial human
discoveries, many of which have been useful and have conformed to conscience. But,
with the development of animal husbandry methods and the making of foods based
on animal ingredients, the voice of conscience has been weakened to a whisper. We can’t be proud of the modern animal
farm, where they practice mutilations and confine animals in cages, all of
which is outside the bounds of a healthy conscience.
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