I don’t care about animals. Plain and simple. I love how they taste, I love desserts like cake, chocolate, clotted cream cookies, and brie pastries. I love cooking with them, I love diversifying my ingredients and meals and trying new things. I love the low cost of milk compared to almond milk, and I especially love how real milk doesn’t make me gag like almond milk does. I love eggs because they’re a quick breakfast and even a snack. To put it aptly, I love animals because they’re fun to cook with, taste good, and are low in cost. Am I a crappy person? Yes. Do I care? No, and you shouldn’t either because there are better things to care about than animal rights. You can care about human rights, you can care about the environment, and you can care about the economy. The reason I am writing this is because I recently got into a quarrel with an “animal rights” activist about how animals cannot be compared to humans. Their suffering cannot be compared to human suffering.
The reason why I believe in this, is because you cannot compare a human to an animal; and that is because of the simple fact that humans are more intelligent than animals will ever be. I don’t feel like channeling my energy towards a useless cause like animal rights. Especially when members of our own kind are suffering as we speak. What you donate to keep a pig from being slaughtered can be better donated to help starving members in your community. What energy and time you spend at a rally for the ethical treatment of animals can be spent at a rally supporting the entry for refugees and immigrants looking for a better life. An animal certainly isn’t mindless, but it isn’t as mindful as a human; and never will be.
