Why Cultured Meat?

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Excerpt: " Factors

" The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear.

Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. "

~Oscar Wilde

Factors any Animal Rights activist should consider when choosing a path:

 

1. The human species (as do other species) is inherently selfish and programmed

for its own perpetuation.

2. " Humans are much more social than rational creatures. In everyday life on

average, people try to merge into society, behave correspondingly, and

afterwards rationalize their behaviour, i.e. find " rational " reasons why they

act as they act. "

Most of them lack the intelligence required to understand the concept of Animal

Rights.

3. Most humans lack the emotional intelligence required to understand what farm

animals go through in factory farms.

4. Most humans don't care about things which are not related directly to

themselves or to the group to which they relate themselves (family, race,

specie, etc.).

5. Humans in general have a strong need for social security, they want things

to stay as they are.

6. Religion: for billions of people around the world, the concept of Animal

Rights (not necessarily veganism) is not even a consideration due to their

religious beliefs.

7. The birth rate in the world is much higher than the death rate & rate of

people turning vegan combined.

8. Animal Rights is a philosophical idea; it cannot be proven as mathematical

theorem can.

9. More than half of the activists in the movement do not even make

rights-based claims when facing rationalnon-vegans but concentrate on factory

farms practices. Moreover, many of them do not believe in Moral absolutism, but

rather in Moral relativism.

10. More than half of the activists in the movement believe animal welfare is a

positive step towards abolition/liberation and therefore cooperate with the

exploiters.

11. Many activists dedicate significant amount of their activism to issues like

companion animals & fur, not to vegan education (though in some cases it's

possible to do both at the same time).

12. The ramifications of vegan education are " theoretical " . Apart from ALF,

animal rights activists rarely receive instant gratification for their hard

work; they don't get to see all the nonhumans they are saving.

13. With regards to past struggles, the Animal Rights struggle is unique: the

strugglers are not the ones who are being oppressed and exploited.

14. The struggle to end Slavery in the United States took hundreds of years and

was finally won in a Civil Warwhich broke out more as a result of political

interests than as result of moral interests. All this, when there were much more

activists, the movement had much more money, the strugglers were the ones who

were being oppressed and the oppressed side was closer specie-wise to the

oppressing side.

15. The Western society is an achieving society. From childhood people are

being brainwashed and taught that their worth is measured by their grades and

that winning is everything. Losing and low grades are a negative. Most people

are not willing to compromise or accept anything less than what they have right

now. On the contrary, even the wealthiest of people try to raise their quality

of life even higher.

16. To become vegan, many must give up on what they consider to be one of the

greatest pleasures in their lives. "

Originally posted on Vegan Soapbox:

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