by Roedy Green ©1999-2009 Canadian Mind ProductsWe poison, gas, trap and kill them with zero regard to how much suffering we inflict. It does not matter because these animals are pests stealing “our” food. They deserve suffering. Technology such as sterilising male screw flies exist that effectively and humanely reduce pest populations, but we prefer to use ones that cause maximal suffering, taking revenge I guess.
We use the same blather that our forefathers used to justify mistreating slaves. Slaves have no souls, therefore they cannot feel pain, they just appear to feel it. Slaves are not intelligent like us. We are more important than slaves. It is only fitting to sacrifice the welfare of a slave for the well being of a human. Slaves have no rights in the law, so it is preposterous to talk of the rights of slaves. Slaves are chattels. It is nobody’s business what you do with your own property.
Some of the same rhetoric used to justify the persecution of native peoples pervades the justification for the torture and exploitation of animals and expropriating their habitats. Heathens don’t have souls. They are just savages, not civilised like us. They are inferior in intelligence. The only good Injun is a dead Injun.
It is only a matter of time until we recognise the right of all species to co-exist with man, unmolested.
At some point more direct action may seem appropriate, freeing slaves, smashing slaving equipment, and harming slavers, but for now I am almost as caught as my fellows in the trance of feeling foolish about my squeamishness over sadism to animals.
People put up with these horrible practices because they buy on price alone. Perhaps if such products were labelled with pictures of the suffering used to produce them, people would be more willing to pay a little more for humane food production. Perhaps one could insert pictures inside the egg cartons to wake people up.
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recommend book⇒In Defense of Food | ||
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| ISBN13: | 978-1-59420-145-5 | B000VMFDR2 | |
| ISBN10: | 1-59420-145-5 | ||
| publisher: | Penguin | ||
| published: | 2008-01-08 | ||
| by: | Michael Pollan | ||
| About the effect of the industrialisation of food on health and the environment. To summarise: eat food, not too much, mostly plants. | |||
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recommend book⇒The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | |||
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| ISBN13: | 978-0-14-303858-0 | 978-1-59420-082-3 | B000SEIDR0 | |
| ISBN10: | 0-14-303858-3 | 1-59420-082-3 | ||
| publisher: | Penguin | |||
| published: | 2007-08-28 | |||
| by: | Michael Pollan | |||
| Get a deeper understanding of what the various foods you may eat are made of and how they are manufactured. | ||||
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recommend book⇒Speciesism | |
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| ISBN13: | 978-0-9706475-6-6 | |
| ISBN10: | 0-9706475-6-5 | |
| publisher: | Lantern Books | |
| published: | 2004-10-30 | |
| by: | Joan Dunayer | |
| Dunayer presents compelling scientific evidence for the sentience of invertebrates. This is also a book about animal cruelty and the human way of dismissing the pain they cause for animals. | ||
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