Not being the instrument of my own destruction..
The beast at the stockyard, with a nod to the PETA people and the vegetarians, are as equivalent in their pre-slaughterhouse doom 
, as we in our degraded physical, lay-pedestrian states 
. The 'dumb livestock' we know are being harvested for consumption. What form of consumption are we-people headed for except as compulsive consumption addicts for the sake of consumption. Are we both the consumer and the consumed by the commercial interests as we physically and mentally ingest their products that are directly and indirectly killing us? Are we in as bad a position as in the Twilight Zone episode, "How to serve man" or the Charlton Heston movie, "Soylent Green"?
Just from the point of view of the physical and physiological consequences, not going into the mentality that enables those consequences; it is enough for me that there is a better way that what "The Market" is offering us as their consumers for our own morbidity.
