This is the thinking of those that Prop 2 opposes. Scary isn't it. With HSUS there is no compromise. Put true animal welfare in the hands of those who are interested in animal welfare and not "rights to sue in court"! HSUS is an animal rights conglomerate. Is below what people believe?
Eggs Are Murder, Dairy is Murder
Category: Blogging
It is common for people to say that meat is murder. It is a mistake to not say that eggs are murder and that dairy is murder. Don't believe me? Read on.
The reason why eggs is murder and why milk is murder is twofold. First, to the animal enterprise industry, nonhuman animals are not animals, they are commodities. Second, to the animal enterprise industry, nonhuman animals are commodities which are used and sold to make profit.
To those who support animal rights, what is done against these nonhuman animals not only causes suffering, but is also exploitation and murder. To the animal enterprise industry, what is done against these nonhuman animals is simply good, smart business that reduces expenses and maximizes profits.
In the animal enterprise industry, they do not desire a 1:1 gender ration in the population as it costs some money to feed and exploit the animals. Most animal flesh that people consume from grocery stores is female. As commodities, females are both a commodity and resource to generate more commodities. You only need a relatively few males in a population in order to generate more "commodities". It is more desirable to have more females than males as it is more profitable to raise females.
In the case of chickens, female chickens are first exploited for their eggs, their female chicks are immediately doomed to a life of being likewise exploited, their male chicks are generally doomed to have their necks wrung and then tossed into a heap, and later when the female chickens die, they are exploited one last time when they are finally sold as "meat". The female chicken has her life exploited, her children exploited, and her death exploited. The female chicken is a more profitable "investment" than a male chicken would be. Male chickens do not give birth to new chickens. Male chickens do not lay eggs. This is why male chicks are murdered.
In the case of cows, the same thing happens to the females except that instead of the exploitation being for eggs, it is exploitation of the cows' milk meant for their calves. The females' reproductive organs are again exploited for profit, and her children are likewise doomed to a life of being exploited and murdered. A moderate difference is that male calves are chained to the floor, not allowed to move, fed purposefully nutrient deficient diets, and then killed to have their death exploited for the "delicacy" commodity known as "veal".
Now, lets imagine if everyone didn't eat animal flesh, but did eat dairy & eggs:
If people didn't eat chickens, male chicks would still be murdered for the exactly same reason they are murdered now: they are unprofitable for exploitation.
If people didn't eat cows, male calves would still be murdered because they aren't profitable to raise. In such a hypothetical world, like our own world, you don't need 1:1 existence of males and females. It is unprofitable to be supporting so many males which cannot be exploited for milk like females can. Male calves are murdered now for this reason. And in such a hypothetical world where people did not consume animal flesh, but did consume dairy, male calves would also still be murdered for exactly the same reason again: they are not profitable to raise.
Consuming eggs and dairy causes murder now and would continue to cause murder EVEN if people didn't eat animal flesh.
Exploitation cannot be made to be considerate. It is a contradiction in terms. Exploitation can only exist when consideration about the exploited is weak or non-existent. Respectfulness requires that we recognize that they have their own desires and interests, that we recognize their suffering to be as legitimate and as painful as our own, and that we recognize they don’t exist to be our property or commodities, but that they exist for their own purposes.
However, as long as animals are regarded as property or commodities, we will do whatever is possible to reduce our expenses and/or to maximize our profits. This is why "cage-free" and "cruelty-free" eggs simply come from overcrowded closed barns. This is why, like "caged eggs", chicks' beaks are still melted off. This is why the male chicks are still killed. This is also why "organic" dairy farms are nearly identical to nonorganic dairy farms. This is why the cows and chickens from both suffer from nearly all the same inflictions from "nonconscientious" exploitation as they do in "conscientious" exploitation.
Exploitation, by its nature, cannot exist if there is respect about the party being exploited. Respectfulness, by its nature, about the party being exploited cannot support exploitation.
Conscientiousness involves recognizing and respecting the natural rights of the other. The only way we can do so this for other animals is to allow them to be born free, to live free, to die free, and to exist for their own purposes.
There is no animal enterprise which can do this.
There is specieism which possesses either no respectfulness about other animals or which possesses pseudo-respectfulness about other animals. Pseudo-respectfulness about other animals isn't about those animals, it is about alleviating ourselves from the discomfort of what we do to them. The proof of this is that suffering, exploitation, and murder will still be inflicted, and it will still also be in the name of enjoyment or it will also be in the name of profit. But it will simply be done in such a way that is less discomforting to ourselves.
It is not possible to exploit ethically, to exploit harmlessly, nor to exploit altruistically. Exploitation, by its nature, will be unethical and will incur harm and will incur undeserved suffering against the exploited.
Authentic compassion about other animals opposes all exploitation and opposes all robbing from other animals their natural rights to be born free, to live free, and to die free. True consideration about other animals will, by its nature, oppose regarding other animals as our property or as commodities from which to bring profits or to bring delight to ourselves at the expense of their anguish, freedom, and life.
If we are to possess respectfulness, consideration, and compassion for other animals, we must then call for vegan abolitionism: an end to treating other animals as property and commodities, as well as a a restoration of their natural rights to be born free, live free, and die free, and to be allowed to exist for their own purposes instead of having their existence dominated for our purposes.
Sure, not any one of us and not any one moment will bring the full changes needed, but every single one of us, and every such moment becomes a part of that series of connected events and forces which forms changes. If we believe inflicting suffering and exploitation against other animals is wrong, we will cease in supporting it, we will advocate for their rights, and we will restore to them the freedom which we humans robbed from them.
The choices are to either to support suffering, exploitation, and murder or to support vegan abolitionism. There is no such thing as ethical, harmless, considerate, or compassionate exploitation. There is no such a thing as ethical factorized farming possible. It is an illusion of a third choice which is born out of desperation by a collective cognitive dissonance of what we do against other animals. But its not real. It literally, ethically, logically, physically cannot exist.
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