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Capitalism and the cold hand of the market taking things to whatever extreme in service of supply and demand and profit.
Highlights
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The culprit, as usual, is the market itself. Under the current economic system, the only law is supply and demand. It doesn’t matter if something is clearly unethical, as long as it’s profitable
✏️ Even when it comes to the question of not only eating, but mass-slaughtering, a sentient species. 🔗 View Highlight
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That’s the logic that’s already been applied to ocean creatures like shrimp and trout, which are forced into ever-smaller enclosures to increase profits and given the bare minimum of food and sanitation.
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If consumers want to buy the corpses of octopi, that demand must be met, no matter how hideous the consequences.
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These things can’t be reformed from within the market system. Instead, change has to come from the political sphere, exerting power over the market. Some demands are simply unacceptable. Companies can’t be allowed to flood the market with cheap, bloodstained animal products, pumping up the public’s appetite for things that shouldn’t be produced at all. The consumer must be told “no.” The octopus abattoir must be stopped.