Where is the animal?

  An appeal to the left and the independence movement     ‘ Approximately 60bn land animals are killed per year worldwide for food. The human population is 7.8bn (as of October 2020) 60bn (animals)/365 (days) = 164,383,561 (animals killed per day) 7.8bn/164,383,561 = 47 days'. (Plant Based News, 2020)   The enlarged message follows: ‘If we killed humans at the rate we kill animals for food, the entire population would be gone in roughly 47 days.’   Not only do animals suffer untimely and brutal deaths; in addition, those who are under human control endure mostly miserable conditions, while ‘wild’ animals are left alone only until people want to hunt them. Most people are aware of all this; may say ‘That’s awful’, and sign a petition against some aspect of factory farming or poaching of endangered animals: but this doesn’t give the animals’ cause any political status.   Even that pathetic cause ‘animal welfare’ hardly ever finds its...