Ra's Statements About 2D Entities

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Anyone who participates in a capitalist society is directly responsible for the suffering and death of impoverished workers at home and abroad. Our lifestyle, luxuries and cheap consumer goods (including our fruits and veggies) come at the expense of human suffering. To ignore this and focus solely on the well-being of animals instead seems counter-intuitive to me and makes it seem that one has more regard for animal life than human life.

The system of exploitation has to be replaced completely before any progress will be made on the front of animal welfare. As long as profit is the motive for action animals will continue to be exploited, since as we've seen it's quite easy for business lobbyists to drum up demand for animal products. How can we convince people not to exploit animals when they are complicit in the exploitation of their fellow human beings? We must put our own house in order and if we can develop a more compassionate society than that compassion will necessarily extend to our animal other-selves.