Big words in academia and politics are just there to remain on the page. We have to realise that only personal interactions can work. When was the last time that organization actually prevented war or managed to broker peace? – the answer is Never. Kinda like the UN when you think about it. The internet should have hailed a new era of personal interaction but the past several years it’s become very tribalistic once more where people just use the platform to hurl insults and those they consider ‘the other’: ethnicity, nationality, politically, gender (not just LGBT but also regular men and women) – we turned the internet into what we feel comfortable with – a place where we can hurl things at groups we dislike. We can lament this or we can just work harder to get people to interact on a personal level with different peoples, species, etc. It’s part of our ‘human’ limitation that we cannot identify with something we’re not familiar with. And when you treat them as beings and not as things you notice they have personalities they love, make friends, play… A personality which you then can’t easily kill and eat. in a humane way for the simple purpose of letting them live their lives happily.
There are farm sanctuaries where they raise cows, sheep, goats, chickens, pigs, etc. Nearly everyone eats ‘meat’ – that’s an animal killed for food. Re: needing to see something close and personal in order to realise we should behave better.