After a recent published issue, I can’t help but reflect on the conflicted relationship the Independent and its readers have with animals.
A couple of weeks ago the Independent was celebrating sentient creatures for all the reasons a compassionate, aware human would. Prior to that issue, the Independent and its readers were celebrating eating sentient beings ( Burger Week ) while erasing the mind-numbing cruelty and horror those animals endure to end up on a plate.
The Independent will soon be celebrating county fairs and the agitation inflicted on animals with the purpose of putting them in fight-or-flight mode, getting them to run, jump and leap for human amusement. In that future edition, the Independent will also normalize the training of children to regard mutual love between humans and animals as an impediment against raising and then killing that animal for money.