This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

Another major way in which we devalue the intelligence of farmed animals, and thereby psychologically justify our treatment of them, is by viewing them as all being the same. One of the reasons for this is that we have bred them to be genetically similar, which further plays into the idea that they are just a collective mass that lack any significant or meaningful individuality. When we remove characteristics or traits that would make it easier to see them as individuals, we instead view them as a mass of interchangeable ‘things’. Fish are of course the ultimate abstraction – thousands of species all categorised as if they are merely one. We remove all individualism from them, and, even with all the scientific evidence that supports the fact they feel pain,9 we still treat them as if they are nothing more than inanimate ocean objects.