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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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The issue here is the majority of people simply do not view animal life as something of significance.
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But they do. The majority of people would be enraged if they saw a dog being tortured. So they clearly value
some animal life. The issue here is that people are speciest, assigning value to certain lifeforms while commodifying others. Frankly, if this weren't the case we wouldn't need to invent alternate names like beef, pork, etc in order to make it palatable to kill cows, pigs, etc. This is also why people are unwilling to witness what goes on in a slaughterhouse but are okay with consuming the product. I know I use this term a lot, but come on: this is text-book cognitive dissonance.
And it's understandable! It's a huge part of our culture. I mean, even the authorities tasked with advising the American populace on health and diet, the USDA and the FDA, have boards comprised of lobbyists who are paid by the very corporations they're supposed to regulate! From youth we're sold various diet structures, food-pyramids, by for-profit industries posing as government agencies who care about our well-being. But do some research. Better yet, watch Cowspiracy on Netflix. It does an excellent job of exposing the incestuous relationship between agriculture and the federal government.
The thing is, once we know better, we have to do better. And we are. I've been vegan a long time now. I've never seen anything like this past year. The movement is flourishing as people become aware and decide to take action. More and more people are knowing and doing better, and it's definitely snowballing.