In order to establish a new and completely different relationship with nonhuman animals, what are you suggesting in Animal Equality that we do?
Q. Ex-vivisector Don Barnes has spoken about his concept of “ethical conditioned blindness”. You have taken this to another level in your book. I think what we are basically talking about here is indoctrination and how prevalent it is in our society. Would you agree? A. I strongly agree. As I relate in Animal Equality, my instincts as a child were to be sensitive to nonhuman suffering and to recognise nonhuman individuals as important and deserving of love and respect. Yet, by the time I entered a graduate program in psychology, I was willing to use rats in experiments. Society had conditioned me to accept the routine exploitation and killing of nonhuman animals. I was raised as a flesh eater and, like most children, taken to aquaprisons and zoos. In every way, society kept telling me, “Its OK for humans to exploit and kill other animals”. A large part of that indoctrination is the language we use. If my parents had spoken of “calf flesh” rather than “veal” and “pig flesh” rather than
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