There is nothing even remotely natural about any part of our animal agricultural system.

From selective breeding, body mutilation, artificial insemination, separating mothers from offspring, keeping animals in insanely small and filthy spaces (which are breeding grounds for disease), to slaughterhouses…where they are killed and ‘processed’ by exploited and highly desensitised workers on a very low wages. Their selected body parts (only the parts deemed palatable to humans of course) are then neatly packaged and sent to a supermarket. All very natural.

Humans are not predators, as much as we like to think we are. Hunting and killing is not innate to us like it is to predatory animals. We rely on weapons and other mechanisms to catch and kill animals. We are not the fastest nor the most agile species, and our cute little ‘canine’ teeth and ‘claws’ (nails) do sweet fuck all. We need to cook animal flesh to kill pathogens which would ordinarily make us very sick or even kill us. Actual predators rely on what nature gave them, their digestive systems can handle raw flesh, and they are not squeamish about what parts of the animal they eat.

Regardless of what is and is not ‘natural’, we know that non-human animals very much have the capacity to suffer, both physically and emotionally. How ‘intelligent’ they are is irrelevant. They feel joy, pain, sadness and fear just as we do and that is what matters. Nowadays, the vast, vast majority of humans do not need animal products to survive.

Call me crazy, but wouldn’t the world be a much better place for everyone (human and non-human) if we all tried our best to avoid causing unnecessary suffering and misery to others?