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Animal Agriculture Industry keeps tricking you into thinking you have no choice but to eat Animals.
These instruments are made up of complex array of defense mechanisms, mechanisms which are pervasive, powerful and invisible.

 

The Greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.

– Mahatma Gandhi

 

Among various tactics they use to deceive you the most prominent is Psychic Numbing.
Psychic Numbing is a psychological process by which we disconnect, mentally and emotionally, from our experience; we “numb” ourselves.

In and itself, psychic numbing is not evil; it is a normal, inevitable part of daily life, enabling us to function in a violent and unpredictable world to cope with our pain if we do fall prey to violence.
For instance, when training army soldiers, they use language to disassociate a soldier from human emotions. Solider does not “Kill” but “Neutralize”.
The person at the other end of the gun is not a “Person” a living being, rather its a “Target”.

Such tactics train a soldier psychologically to pull the trigger when told to, without any emotional thinking, without rationalizing the decision to be right or wrong; weather the “Target” is an armed soldier or an innocent civilian.

So is the case when it comes to our upbringing.
There are countless behaviors that have ingrained in us right from the childhood.
Parents imbibe values in a kid even before kid can hold its neck; that includes food choices, clothing choices, manners, etiquettes, moral and ethical values, religious beliefs etc.

Now parents themselves are nowhere near being a good parent, forget about being a parent they are not even decent human beings in the first place.
Human beings with compassion, kindness, self-awareness, humility.
Parents don’t have a slightest of idea what kind of Human they are and they start to doctrine their agendas onto their children.
It’s like one sick person infecting other with sickness and another and another.

 

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

– Rabindranath Tagore

 

All of these behaviors are part of Psychic Numbing process weather people are aware of it or not.

If a baby is given a rabbit and carrot. And baby plays with carrot and eats the rabbit, I’ll buy you a car.
Try it yourself if you have 1-3 year old at your home.

This is why eating animal flesh is NOT our nature.
The whole idea of Humans being natural predators is absolutely ridiculous and invalid.
Human won’t last 3 days in the wild today. (Don’t come at me with exceptions, there are many accidents where people have survived.)

Put a Human in a wild where clearly there are bears and tigers and leopards and see how “we’re top of the food chain.”

Psychic numbing becomes maladaptive, or destructive, when it is used to enable violence, even if that violence is as far away as the factories in which animals are turned into food.

Mechanisms of psychic numbing distort our perceptions and distance us from feelings, transforming our empathy into apathy.
The defense mechanisms of psychic numbing include,

  • Denial
  • Avoidance
  • Routinization
  • Justification
  • Objectification
  • Deindividualization
  • Dichotomization
  • Rationalization
  • Dissociation

We’ll discuss each of these aspects of psychic numbing in detail to deconstruct the system that turns animals into edibles in upcoming articles.
Read here : Where DO these animals actually come from? The Reality of Chicken, Cows and Pig Farming

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