Loving Pets While Eating Others Is a Moral Contradiction
Many claim to love animals, yet fund industries that exploit and kill them. This contradiction lies at the heart of mainstream society. We dote on dogs and cats, seeing them as family, while pigs, cows, and chickens—equally sentient—are commodified and consumed. It’s not a lack of compassion, but a failure of consistency. Speciesism, like any form of discrimination, is rooted in conditioning, not truth.
If harming a cat is wrong, harming a pig is too. True love for animals means refusing to harm any of them, not just the ones we find cute or convenient. Veganism isn't extreme. What’s extreme is killing animals we could simply choose not to eat.