I wouldn’t say the majority of dogs and cats are exploited. They are controlled, but in the main, their domestic life style, is not being exploited. I agree some show dogs or cats are exploited in the same way some mothers exploit their little girls by parading them in front of people all prissied up. What I am talking about is the junior beauty pageant or Dog show or Cat show. In the main though, Dogs are attached to their humans and cats need their human staff as cat food cans don’t open themselves.

The word exploitation is bandied around willy nilly. EVERYTHING EXPLOITS EVERYTHING ELSE, that is nature. Just because humans are at the top of the food chain, is it wrong? Are Lions exploiting Springboks because they kill and eat them? Are Eagles exploiting Rodents because they swoop down and kill them for supper? I could go on, but this is what is known as the food chain. The important thing though is that Lions, Eagles and other predator creatures do nothing in return for their prey. They don’t feed them, protect them, and look after their health. They just … kill them.

If you classify Humans, in general, in the class of predators and yes those who exploit the vegetable world would say they are not predators, and then we do more for our prey’s welfare than any other predator. Not only does the Man preditor look after it’s prey it attempts to dispatch it’s prey in kindest way possible, unlike other predators who chase down thier prey causing fear and stress.

You either get rid of the cause or the presumed, problem. You are not going to stop Man using other creatures for his benifit, exploitation, unless you eliminate those creatures so he can not use them……. or you eliminate Man…….

Exploitaton, a poweful word, conjours up visions of slave camps, sweat shops and evil overloard masters. But that is not what it means. It is valid to say the carrot is exploited.

The question is, are Cows Victims? Do they enjoy a protected and comfortable life before they take they inevitable place in the food chain? Sheep are the same, other than having a regular “Hair Cut” they are very well looked after and protected from predators other than Man. Another way to look at it, if they wern’t useful to Man, they would not even exist as thier “natural” enviroment would of been taken over by the Humans.

The real problem is the uncontrolled breeding of the humans.

Honestly, I can’t tell whether this is a serious comment or random troll snark, so perhaps I should just leave it at that?

Sheep, Pigs, Chickens all farm animals have to go. If they are not destroyed, the temptation for Men to eat their flesh or steal their offspring, wool etc. is too great. They only exist to be exploited, if they are not exploited then they have no reason to exist!

If they no longer exist…. they can’t be exploited.