The worst conspiracy is animal cruelty. Trillions (or more) people over the years have essentially gotten together and said, "Let's pick and choose which animals we care about and which we don't. We'll care about a small minority of species (pets), but even then, many of us will be cruel to these animals when we feel like it. For example, we will confine many pets to small cages and fishbowls. The vast majority (countless) of animals we won't care about. We will do what we want to this planet. We will pollute it, which will kill many animals. We will procreate absurdly, many of us addicted to having kids, which will require that more housing for humans be built, which will result in more wilderness being destroyed, which will push wild animals further into a corner that gets smaller everyday. We will harm animals at will." It is likely that, shortly after we got up onto two feet for the first time, we began to attack animals.
I was watching a documentary last night. A boy had made a slingshot, and was showing another boy how to use it. I had a bad feeling about where this was headed, and it was confirmed. One of the boys shot a stone at a bird, and the other boy said, "Awesome! You almost hit it." The camera crew should not have allowed that to happen. One of them should have told the boys that it's wrong to attack animals, but, obviously, they let it happen. I suppose they consider that to be part of their "art." Attacking animals for real in a movie is not "art;" it just makes it a sick, twisted piece of shit.
Back to the conspiracy. "There is no need to eat meat, but we will do so, because we can. We are stronger than the animals are. We are smarter than they are. We will use these advantages to terrorize them. We will use our cunning to come up with new ways to make them suffer. Money matters more than anything in our 'culture,' so, of course, we will exploit animals for profit. Money in our pockets matters so much more than the pain and suffering of animals, that we can't even begin to measure it. It will be proven, over and over again, that vegan whole foods (fruits, veggies, nuts, beans, seeds, whole grains) are the healthiest foods for us to eat, and that we don't need to eat meat at all. Plenty of doctors will say and write that eating too much meat can lead to cancer and heart disease, but we don't care. We want to eat whatever we want to eat. If MacDonald's came out with a snake burger, and it tasted good, then count us in. We don't care about our health. We will do drugs, drink too much, smoke, and be obese, because no one tells us what to do.
We will kick the dog when we want to. We will harm her for no reason, because, unlike people, she can't call the police, so we will get away with harming her. Whenever we feel like it, we will try to make our pets miserable, because we are miserable.
We will experiment on live animals. We will do incredibly cruel things to animals in the name of science and progress. We will not lose sight of the fact that people matter and animals don't, so, therefore, anything we do to an animal, no matter how horrible, if it benefits humans, it is okay. Even if animal suffering in lab experiments doesn't benefit humans, it is still okay, because it is the thought that counts, and as long as the cruelty wasn't suffered by people, it is okay, because, again, we, humans, matter, and animals don't. We only care about ourselves; meaning, I don't care about you, of course, just myself: maybe my kids, but if I cared about them, I wouldn't have brought them into this fucked-up world in the first place (but that's another conspiracy).
Even though we support heinous animal cruelty when we buy meat, leather, fur, etc., we will think that we are good people. As long as we aren't horrifically cruel to people, then we will consider ourselves to be good people. We will smile when we talk about our favorite meat dishes. We will dance while eating chicken. We won't be ashamed of the aroma of the tortured animal flesh we are roasting. We will shut off the part of our conscience that cares about animals (assuming it was ever there at all whatsoever). Meat is a thing. It is no longer an animal. Come to think of it, the animal was a thing. He or she was an 'it.'"
Very, very sadly, with attitudes like this, it seems as though there is no end to widespread, systematic, institutionalized animal cruelty. There has been, and continues to be, an immeasurable amount of needless animal suffering, which exists because far too many people don't care about animal cruelty (Because they don't have to worry about being the victims of the cruelty.).
But you, who supports animal cruelty by buying meat, remember this; TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT; BILLIONS OF WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT; NO AMOUNT OF WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT! If you are a mentally-sound adult who supports animal cruelty, if you are cruel to animals, you are CRUEL (PERIOD). There's no getting around it. You better hope that karma isn't real. If you're religious, you better hope there isn't a hell, cause if there is, get ready to burn.
