The only effective way to end a business is to cut off the source of their profit. To remove one’s personal demand for misery and death means becoming vegan. The atrocity is not how our unnecessary victims are treated. The atrocity is that we have victims when it is not necessary. The atrocity is nonveganism.
Image of a state-of-the-art chicken slaughter facility.
Profit and greed from meeting consumer demands – a few harsh truths.
I often read comments that suggest that those who ‘farm’ lives and bodies to please nonvegan consumers are somehow ‘greedier’ than any other businesspeople and this is why the images of exploitation establishments are so squalid and grim.
I’ve one or two things I particularly want to say about that. Firstly, I genuinely doubt that the profiteering in the nonhuman exploitation industries is any worse than in any other industry. In every walk of life ‘maximum profit for minimum outlay’ is the principle that drives every commercial enterprise. The use of lives and bodies is fundamentally based on an assumption that they are nothing more important than resources for human use and indulgence. It has to be. Nonvegan consumer supply would not be possible if the participants actually viewed the victims as thinking, feeling individuals. So why WOULDN’T suppliers act in the same way as every other industry and seek maximum profit? To fail to do so would make no sense.
The second thing I’d like to point out, is this: Let’s just say that far from seeking maximum profits like everyone else, the exploitation industries were to throw cash into their businesses with state-of-the-art, spotless, gleaming facilities for breeding, incarcerating, breastmilk extraction, egg collection and slaughtering? What if the best food that money could buy was provided? The most luxurious transports to the slaughterhouses? Because these aspects could NEVER change; acceptance of, and insistence on the use and consumption of the lives and bodies of nonhuman individuals for substances and services that humans could easily do without but just don’t want to, is the fundamental principle of nonveganism.
Would all that investment make it morally acceptable to breed, use and kill nonhuman individuals? And the answer is NO. Using lives and bodies is wrong and it will ALWAYS be wrong no matter how or where it’s done.
And thirdly – The ONLY reason there is any market at all for the results of ‘farming’ lives and bodies is because of every single nonvegan consumer. No matter how pious the claims about ‘loving animals’ it’s not possible to buy, donate or protest a way out of the violence demanded by each and every one.
The only effective way to end a business is to cut off the source of their profit. To remove one’s personal demand for misery and death means becoming vegan.
The atrocity is not how our unnecessary victims are treated. The atrocity is that we have victims when it is not necessary. The atrocity is nonveganism.
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