Age Of Meat

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Humans are living in an age of technological prosperity. Our species has invented automobiles, artificial intelligence, advanced medicines, and supercomputers. You are probably reading this message through an operating system. The truth is, we have done so much for the advancement of humanity that we tend to forget we are not the only species who live on this planet. We spoil ourselves rotten with inventions our globe has given us, and we torture and steal from animals only because we are able to. One might argue that we only do this to maintain our species and that this drive to survive is only learned from our human ancestors. Contrary to that belief, our human ancestors have been long extinct and there is no longer a need to take from animals …show more content…

We mustn’t continue the harvesting and torturing of animals any longer. The truth is, humans are capable of living without animal fur garments. We have done so much for the advancement of our society that we only take for granted those billions of lives we kill each year. It’s a reality that many do not want to face, there is just no point of harvesting animal fur anymore. We are in an age of smartphones and practical quantum computers, yet we still reserve and maintain the medieval fur industry. We have a vast amount of cruelty-free synthetic alternatives that are more advanced than traditional animal fur, yet we still prefer to wear the carcasses of animals. We have a tendency to believe that humans are the superior species and that any other species shall be deemed of a lower class. That belief however is only your ego talking. Nothing in this world is created with a certain amount of value. You have no more greater value than the noble carpenter ant. Therefore, why must you feel deserving of wearing the remains of 100-200 chinchillas. There is no excuse. The only reason you purchase and wear fur coat in this age is solely for the purpose of gloating you own a fur coat. Animals are not fashion trends! And it is utterly idiotic to believe such a sickening thing. You are aware of the reality that you are wearing the remains of tortured and beaten creatures, yet you still own a sense of entitlement. You have what you have and by God, there is no valid excuse for inflicting suffering on animals just for your own meaningless desires. This way of thinking is ancient and imprudent, and is not how a society should

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