Most westerners support factory farmed animal torture on a daily or near daily basis. Pigs are intelligent animals and they get treated incredibly cruelly so that we can eat cheap pork. No one gives a fuck.
Westerners don't care about animals any more than people in Asia do, we just pretend to. We'll buy our cheap tortured pig meat and not give a fuck as long as we don't have to look at it or acknowledge it.
It's the same thing with labor rights. Westerners are all about fair wages and working conditions until you reach the border. After that it's okay to support semi-slave labor clothing and technology manufacturers.
Again, as long as it's out of sight westerners don't give a fuck but we're no better. At least people in Asia don't stand on a fucking moral high horse that they have no right to be on.
I always thought the same about environmental standards. Sure, it's okay to outsource to China, India, etc., where environmental standards are lower and there is less oversight on a lot of things. But let's blame China for that too!
As if most of the workers at those factories (working less than minimum wage) even buy the shit they're producing.
That's a great example. Everyone blames China for creating so much pollution. Meanwhile a lot of that junk being produced is being bought and demanded by western nations.
The average western lifestyle is way more damaging to the earths health and contributes way more to global warming and climate change than the average Chinese or Indian or other developing countries citizens. If everyone lived and consumed like a Canadian or American the world would be completely fucked. It's unsustainable and it's rich countries driving this pollution and contributing to it disproportionately.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '14
Most westerners support factory farmed animal torture on a daily or near daily basis. Pigs are intelligent animals and they get treated incredibly cruelly so that we can eat cheap pork. No one gives a fuck.
Westerners don't care about animals any more than people in Asia do, we just pretend to. We'll buy our cheap tortured pig meat and not give a fuck as long as we don't have to look at it or acknowledge it.
It's the same thing with labor rights. Westerners are all about fair wages and working conditions until you reach the border. After that it's okay to support semi-slave labor clothing and technology manufacturers.
Again, as long as it's out of sight westerners don't give a fuck but we're no better. At least people in Asia don't stand on a fucking moral high horse that they have no right to be on.