I thought this was an Animal Farm reference about people at first anyway.
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withnail@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I mean they do that with people, so why not pigs too?
blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I feel like people trying to humanize livestock aren’t familiar with how capitalists treat most people. There are preschool children mining toxic metals we need for our cell phone batteries. We know this, and while not one of us is in a position to change it ourselves, we all collectively look the other way because we want cell phones.
It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we feel powerless to fix it and we benefit from the atrocity. If you want people to engage, you have to make people believe they can help. And then they actually have to help somehow.