The entire human food structure is probably more and more carnivorous. More and more cattle, sheep, chickens, fish, etc. are slaughtered every year.
Some people are starting to reduce their meat intake. They do it for fear of diseases like obesity, not to reduce animals being slaughtered. There are also poor areas where they eat too little meat. As poverty improves, the first need may be to eat more meat.
How different is the nature of the slaughter of a farmed animal versus the slaughter of a wild, if not endangered, species? Many people will think that there is a big difference, involving the natural laws of the food chain and human cultural traditions and so on. Perhaps, only when we find out that we are cloned one day, will we truly realize that slaughtering is actually exactly the same.
Japanese fishermen were not the only butchers. Westerners may not kill dolphins, they are killing animals they take for granted to kill. Maybe the Japanese fishermen will have such anger in their hearts: You can kill cattle openly every day, why do we kill dolphins secretly and be chased and beaten by you? Why are the mainstream values and the right to speak always with you?
Perhaps the deepest question is, what should human food be?
If you eat small loach, there will always be 10 in a meal; if you eat small shrimp, there will be more than 100 in a meal.
When we are heartbroken for the slaughter of lovely animals and numb to the slaughter of a large number of other animals, is our heartache really just the selfish heartache of losing my love?
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