Next time you hear the food chain excuse......

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Are you as sick, bored and tired of this "excuse" for heinous animal cruelty as I am? I am betting YES??

 

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Adam Kochanowicz

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The Food Chain fallacy

 

Seemingly more strength can be given to the original argument by putting our exploitation in terms of natural conditions or a "food chain." This is where Torres's writings are most appropriate as a response.

 

From a biologist's perspective, I've never seen any kind of taxonomic food chain other than the term "food chain" being a very general name for how several animals may eat and be eaten in succession. There is no scientific principle stating sentient organisms are strictly part of our food chain. In addition, nature works in cycles, not chains.

 

Second, stating our exploitation of animals is a human component of a natural process is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.

 

Where animal life may be survival-dependent natural resources for wild animals, the animals we use for food, clothing, chemicals, and labor exist in an economic system, not in any natural setting where there is a balanced struggle to survive. Animals are factories, economic commodities whose worth is defined as their value to a human being's interest.

 

The logical response to the animal industry and factory farms is the rejection of using animals for any means. The first step is going vegan and no one but you can personally make that decision.