Warning: There is some brutal footage in this video. It is not suitable for children but all of us that have not lost our humanity should watch it and share it.
Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
Animals or humans. There is no limit to the horrors that the market will impose on humans, animals or the natural world on behalf of the owners of capital and their rapacious, violent struggle for profits. Some will say that they are just as ruthless in their treatment of humans, of the poor and so on. And this is true. But that doesn't change the obligation to change what we see here. We are all animals on this orb.
What you are witnessing here is not some sort of aberration, not an unusual event. As I just wrote, they treat humans the same way. Everything, the land, the plants and the forests, the animals and the human body are all commodities, something that has the potential to return more capital to the capitalist above their outlay.
What genuine socialism will do for us is allow us to have a better relationship with not only other animals, but the land and the natural world that nourishes us. We have no choice but to change the world, the way we produce the necessities of life or we die. There are some sections of society that want to prevent that even if it means the end of life as we know it.
We have the means, we have the know how. Even if we use animals to help us understand how to create a safer world, it will be done in a planned collective sane way; humanity can respect them lime the indigenous hunter of the whale or the Mongol owner of the camel. The most important aspect of that system will be the profit motive, the struggle to accumulate wealth and money at the expense of ohers will no longer exist.
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