Animal exploitation isn’t a problem mainly created by “meat, dairy, and egg industries’ propaganda”. Which propaganda tells humans to breed and use cats and dogs as so-called “pets”, not different from “livestock”? Which propaganda tells humans to ride horses? There was no “industry propaganda” in ancient Egypt that promoted enslaving and using camels for transport, no ads that promoted hunting in medieval Europe, or government subsidies for dog sledding in Canada. What does all this tell us? It highlights the fact that animal exploitation has a deep historical record caused by a type of mentality, the very degrading notion in human minds, which says that we as humans are entitled to use non-human animals for our ends.
SERHII DOVHAN: Animal exploitation isn’t a problem created by “meat, dairy, and egg industries’ propaganda”. They surely make it harder to move towards animal emancipation, but they’re simply manifestations of what preceded their ads, campaigns, lies, and their very existence. There was no “industry propaganda” in ancient Egypt that promoted enslaving and using camels for transport, no ads that promoted hunting in medieval Europe, or government subsidies for dog sledding in Canada, and no commercially driven nutritional misinformation about animal flesh in the pre-industrial US.
What does it tell us? It highlights the fact that animal exploitation has a deep historical record caused by a type of mentality, the very degrading notion in human minds, which says that we as humans are entitled to use non-human animals for our ends. It exposes that the issue is purely social and global, not industrial, not nutritional, and certainly not created by governments with their subsidies and “factory farming”…
Which propaganda tells humans to breed and use cats and dogs as so-called “pets”, which is a biased, purpose-prescribing, objectifying term, not different from “livestock”? Which propaganda tells humans to ride horses or go to zoos? I could go on and on, but the point is that non-vegan humans simply follow this pre-formed, social, exploitative norm, which they have inherited and learned…
The root problem lies precisely in the minds of humans, on an individual level and a formed societal “norm” as a result. It’s a self-reinforcing problem with its manifestations and “atoms” present virtually all around us… It’s a big problem that we have a movement of symptomatic welfarists who create a community of people who haven’t unlearned that societal conditioning, that very objectifying mentality and narratives towards animals, yet say they’re vegans, and thus further confuse the rest of the non-vegan public…
For those who call themselves vegan: please learn the history of the movement to see how it was almost killed by something that doesn’t elevate victims’ moral status… Challenge the very exploitative ideology of humanity: highlight the way they have been taught to view animals: some animals as resources for clothing, some for excretions and flesh, while others as rideable transport, decorations, entertainment, objects for hunting, and so on…
Explain the vegan stance: the principle that humans should live without exploiting animals, regardless of the cruelty or for which purpose they are used. Explain that veganism is not a set of practices (e.g., plant-based nutrition, household items ect.) — they’re simply the outcome of this principle. Veganism is an active position for animal emancipation from human use, that is, about advocating for the abandonment of that very societal “norm” in the rest of society. SOURCE…
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