Status Updates From IN DEFENCE OF ANIMALS

basically screenshotted half of this chapter, so important

“ What has value for the utilitarian is the satisfaction of an individual's interests, not the individual whose interests they are.“

“The fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us to be eaten, or surgically manipulated, or exploited for sport/money. Once we accept this view of them the rest is as predictable as it is regrettable. Why worry about their loneliness, their pain, their death? Animals exist for us, to benefit us, what harms them only matters when it starts to bother our appetite”

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