The question is: how do we get the majority of humans to care about the other animal species? The attitudes expressed by most commenters to articles about diet and "food" animals give an idea of what these animals are up against. Today's article on the Alt-Meat website describes the refusal of the conventional media to say cultivated meat. They insist on using the unappealing term "lab-meat." The media, of which The Washington Post is a prime example, are shills for animal agribusiness. While I am ambivalent about cultivated meat to an extent, if it will reduce the number of animals born into the food production/consumption system, I support it completely. Plant-based, cultivated - whatever it takes to wean consumers from purchasing slaughtered animals and their "products." Could cultivated meat really make a difference? Or will it be just one more food choice for the amoral omnivore?
This piece is one of the best I've read on speciesism and the horror that is inflicted upon non-human animals. It is clear and straight-forward and asks the right questions, that is the ones that make us look at our own duplicity. How many humans demand empathy for their own suffering but cover their eyes and ears to the suffering inflicted on our non-human cousins.
"We all have an infinite capacity to endure the suffering of others."- La Rouchefoucauld
“Our humanity isn’t measured by how we treat other people…Our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.” –Chuck Palahniuk
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.”-Paul Farmer
“The first thing you notice when you go vegan is that everyone is mad, and they tell you you’re mad. You voluntarily enter the moral Twilight Zone. You discover a grotesque inconsistency between the beliefs people express and their behavior. You realize that we’re all highly irrational, and that it’s emotion that rules culture, and culture rules the behavior of individuals. No matter how much harm it causes, nothing we do needs to be justified as long as it’s popular enough.” - Karen Manfrede
The question is: how do we get the majority of humans to care about the other animal species? The attitudes expressed by most commenters to articles about diet and "food" animals give an idea of what these animals are up against. Today's article on the Alt-Meat website describes the refusal of the conventional media to say cultivated meat. They insist on using the unappealing term "lab-meat." The media, of which The Washington Post is a prime example, are shills for animal agribusiness. While I am ambivalent about cultivated meat to an extent, if it will reduce the number of animals born into the food production/consumption system, I support it completely. Plant-based, cultivated - whatever it takes to wean consumers from purchasing slaughtered animals and their "products." Could cultivated meat really make a difference? Or will it be just one more food choice for the amoral omnivore?
This piece is one of the best I've read on speciesism and the horror that is inflicted upon non-human animals. It is clear and straight-forward and asks the right questions, that is the ones that make us look at our own duplicity. How many humans demand empathy for their own suffering but cover their eyes and ears to the suffering inflicted on our non-human cousins.
"We all have an infinite capacity to endure the suffering of others."- La Rouchefoucauld
“Our humanity isn’t measured by how we treat other people…Our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.” –Chuck Palahniuk
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.”-Paul Farmer
“The first thing you notice when you go vegan is that everyone is mad, and they tell you you’re mad. You voluntarily enter the moral Twilight Zone. You discover a grotesque inconsistency between the beliefs people express and their behavior. You realize that we’re all highly irrational, and that it’s emotion that rules culture, and culture rules the behavior of individuals. No matter how much harm it causes, nothing we do needs to be justified as long as it’s popular enough.” - Karen Manfrede
Jasmine nailed it.