The measure of civility of a given society
used to be how well it treated its prisoners
and how it limited the gap between rich and poor.
But I would like to amend that measure
to how well a country treats the animals,
it rears for food production, voluntarily.
Such creatures can have no understanding
of 'the nation state', or the law or custom
that they are subject to. For this
they are concidered 'beyond dumb',
for being raised purely for consumption.
The false superiority with which
we deal with the flesh that we eat
mirrors the hidden hierarchies
which heap upon each other.
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